When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
LEON TROTSKYOnce again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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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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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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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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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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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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