Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
LEON TROTSKYEveryone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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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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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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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.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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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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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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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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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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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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