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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

Leon Trotsky

Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
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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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World
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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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Country Possible Realization Social
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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Respect
The 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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Aspect Blind Force History Humanity Man Society Summary
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
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 a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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Country Employer Obedience Principle State
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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Beautiful Breathe Fight Future Happiness Hope Horizon
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
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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Country Detail History Hope Ideas Impossible Myself Revolution Willing
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
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify

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