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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Leon Trotsky

Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Crisis Exhale Human Inhale Live
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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End Justification Philosophy
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
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
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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Law Motion Photograph Relate Thinking
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
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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Age Expression Fantasy Modern Ourselves Success Triumph
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
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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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Country Employer Obedience Principle State
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution
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.
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Capital Catastrophe Moral Party Revolution Social Society Survive
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen

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