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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

Leon Trotsky

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Country Possible Realization Social
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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Particular Possible Quite Violence
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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Better Ignorance Problem Revolution Talk
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
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
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
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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Decline Dictatorship Fall Industry Present Replacement
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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History Powerful Revenge Secretary
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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Beautiful Full Future Generation Life Oppression Violence

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