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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!

Leon Trotsky

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Country Possible Realization Social
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
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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Eyes Reach Socialism State
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
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Convince Head Yourself
‎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
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Literature Mirror Shave
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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Establishment Power Socialism Victory
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.
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Colonial Imperialism Struggle Support War
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
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
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion

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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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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