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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

Leon Trotsky

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Aspect Blind Force History Humanity Man Society Summary
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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Eyes Reach Socialism State
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Cruelty Serious Struggle Time Worst
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
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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Particular Possible Quite Violence
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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Colonial Imperialism Struggle Support War
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Convince Head Yourself
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution

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