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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

Leon Trotsky

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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Creation Foundation Powerful World
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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Humiliation Language Oneself People Swear
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
LEON TROTSKY

Candidate Election People Right
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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Chain Human Lying Power Purchase Sale Shame
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
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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Man Place Victory Woman Work
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
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Convince Head Yourself
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
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
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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History Powerful Revenge Secretary
‎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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Betrayal Grave Serve Work
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
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

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