The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
LEON TROTSKY
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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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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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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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.
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Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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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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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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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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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Let 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.
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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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