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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.

Leon Trotsky

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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Development Law Position Revolution
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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Law Motion Photograph Relate Thinking
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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Beautiful Full Future Generation Life Oppression Violence
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
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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Easy Frustration Greatness Life Misery Personal Raise Weakness
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Life Old Oneself Realize Surprise
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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Contradiction Permanent Recognition Revolution Theory
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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Man Place Victory Woman Work
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
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.
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Accident Democracy Limitation Method Threat
Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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Country Discover Force Socialist Society
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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Development Fake National Revolution
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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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Crisis Exhale Human Inhale Live
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Cruelty Serious Struggle Time Worst
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
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.
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Guide History Leadership Position Time
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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Establishment Power Socialism Victory
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.
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Country Existence Record Revolution

‎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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‎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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