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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.

Leon Trotsky

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Convince Head Yourself
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
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
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
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
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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Chain Human Lying Power Purchase Sale Shame
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
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Agreement Blow Bold Decisive Force Necessary
The 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.
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Capable Criticism Dangerous Defeat Thinking
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World

In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.

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