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Leon Trotsky

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
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
LEON TROTSKY

End Justification Philosophy
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
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
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 fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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Decline Dictatorship Fall Industry Present Replacement
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
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
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
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
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim

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