From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
LEON TROTSKYThe 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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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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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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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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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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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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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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To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
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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 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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