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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Leon Trotsky

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Absolute Circumstance Peace Rule War
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Advantage Draw Ourselves Revolution Time Try
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
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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Determination Forever Method Usage
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
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
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
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
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
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
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
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
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Believe Force Gravity
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
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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History Individual Isolate Yourself
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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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
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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Camp Character Revolution Service
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen

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