The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
LEON TROTSKYEveryone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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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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The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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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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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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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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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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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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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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