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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

Leon Trotsky

The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
LEON TROTSKY

Decline Dictatorship Fall Industry Present Replacement
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
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
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
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

Country Existence Record Revolution
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

Country Detail History Hope Ideas Impossible Myself Revolution Willing
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
LEON TROTSKY

Fascism Religion
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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Law Motion Photograph Relate Thinking
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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End Justification Philosophy
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
LEON TROTSKY

History Powerful Revenge Secretary

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