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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

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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Guide History Leadership Position Time
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Easy Frustration Greatness Life Misery Personal Raise Weakness
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution
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 depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
Revolutions are always verbose.
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One Liner Revolution
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
‎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
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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Determination Forever Method Usage
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Banishment Essence Leadership Name

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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