The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
LEON TROTSKYWhere the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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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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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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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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The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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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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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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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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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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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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