If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
LEON TROTSKYFascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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