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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.

Leon Trotsky

Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
LEON TROTSKY

Condition Correct Objective Victory
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
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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Development Law Position Revolution
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution
Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
LEON TROTSKY

Camp Character Revolution Service
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
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.
LEON TROTSKY

Contradiction Permanent Recognition Revolution Theory
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
LEON TROTSKY

Literature Mirror Shave
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
LEON TROTSKY

Humiliation Language Oneself People Swear
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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Accident Democracy Limitation Method Threat
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
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
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality

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