Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

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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.

LEON TROTSKY

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.
LEON TROTSKY
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

LEON TROTSKY

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
LEON TROTSKY

Circumstance
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

LEON TROTSKY

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
LEON TROTSKY
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

LEON TROTSKY

In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
LEON TROTSKY

Detail Willing
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’

LEON TROTSKY

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Creativity Union
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.

LEON TROTSKY

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
LEON TROTSKY
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.

LEON TROTSKY

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.
LEON TROTSKY
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.

LEON TROTSKY

The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
LEON TROTSKY

Socialism
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

LEON TROTSKY

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
LEON TROTSKY

Discussion
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

LEON TROTSKY

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
LEON TROTSKY
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

LEON TROTSKY

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
LEON TROTSKY
Revolutions are always verbose.

LEON TROTSKY

Revolutions are always verbose.
LEON TROTSKY
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.

LEON TROTSKY

When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
LEON TROTSKY
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.

LEON TROTSKY

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.
LEON TROTSKY

Draw
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 TROTSKY

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 TROTSKY

Colonial Imperialism
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

LEON TROTSKY

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
LEON TROTSKY

Production Vehicle

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