Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
LEON TROTSKYOld age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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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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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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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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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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