The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
LEON TROTSKYFascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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