Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
LEON TROTSKY
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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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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Revolutions are always verbose.
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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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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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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 a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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