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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Leon Trotsky

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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Country Detail History Hope Ideas Impossible Myself Revolution Willing
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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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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Development Fake National Revolution
The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
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Capable Criticism Dangerous Defeat Thinking
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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Desire Force Freedom Government Independence Powerful Repression Struggle
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
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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Eyes Reach Socialism State
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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End Justification Philosophy
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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Guide History Leadership Position Time
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
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Establishment Power Socialism Victory
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim

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