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Leon Trotsky

Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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Country Fulfill Impossible Possible Task
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union
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 serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Cruelty Serious Struggle Time Worst
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
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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Colonial Imperialism Struggle Support War
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
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
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself

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