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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

Leon Trotsky

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

Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
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
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Convince Head Yourself
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
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Agreement Blow Bold Decisive Force Necessary
Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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Camp Character Revolution Service
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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.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
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
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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History Individual Isolate Yourself
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Advantage Draw Ourselves Revolution Time Try
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Literature Mirror Shave
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

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