Revolutions are always verbose.
LEON TROTSKYYou are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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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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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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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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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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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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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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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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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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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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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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