Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
LEON TROTSKYLearning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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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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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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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.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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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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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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