I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
LEON TROTSKYThe 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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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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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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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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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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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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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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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Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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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 motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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