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.
LEON TROTSKYWhen one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
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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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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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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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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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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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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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