I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
LEON TROTSKYI feel here that this time they have succeeded.
LEON TROTSKYWhere the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
LEON TROTSKYThe Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
LEON TROTSKYWorkers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
LEON TROTSKYThe pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
LEON TROTSKYIs 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.
LEON TROTSKYTechnique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
LEON TROTSKYThe 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 TROTSKYOur party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
LEON TROTSKYThe United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
LEON TROTSKYLet 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.
LEON TROTSKYIt is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
LEON TROTSKYIdeas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
LEON TROTSKYThe main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
LEON TROTSKYOnly in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
LEON TROTSKYIf we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
LEON TROTSKY