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The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

Leon Trotsky

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
LEON TROTSKY

Development Fake National Revolution
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
LEON TROTSKY

End Justification Philosophy
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
LEON TROTSKY

Candidate Election People Right
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
LEON TROTSKY

Conscious Protect Revolution
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
LEON TROTSKY

Believe Force Gravity
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.
LEON TROTSKY

Country Existence Record Revolution
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
LEON TROTSKY

End Justification Need
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
LEON TROTSKY

Run Togetherness Wolf
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.
LEON TROTSKY

Accomplishment Act Explanation Forget Man Name Revolution
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.
LEON TROTSKY

Accident Democracy Limitation Method Threat
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
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.
LEON TROTSKY

Guide History Leadership Position Time
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

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