Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
LEON TROTSKY
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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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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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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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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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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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 task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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