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

Leon Trotsky

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Literature Mirror Shave
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
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
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
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
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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Contradiction Permanent Recognition Revolution Theory
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
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Accomplishment Act Explanation Forget Man Name Revolution
Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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Condition Correct Objective Victory
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
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
In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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Country Existence Record Revolution
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
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
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence

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