Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
LEON TROTSKYIn 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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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 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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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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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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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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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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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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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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?
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