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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.

Leon Trotsky

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Believe Force Gravity
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Aspect Blind Force History Humanity Man Society Summary
‎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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Betrayal Grave Serve Work
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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Desire Force Freedom Government Independence Powerful Repression Struggle
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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Better Ignorance Problem Revolution Talk
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
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
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
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
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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Beautiful Breathe Fight Future Happiness Hope Horizon
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Man Place Victory Woman Work
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party

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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