It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
LEON TROTSKYThe revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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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.
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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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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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