Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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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.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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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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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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