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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.

Leon Trotsky

The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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Candidate Election People Right
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Country Possible Realization 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.
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Country Existence Record Revolution
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
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Establishment Power Socialism Victory
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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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Country Employer Obedience Principle State
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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Capital Catastrophe Moral Party Revolution Social Society Survive
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
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.
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Advantage Draw Ourselves Revolution Time Try
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
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve

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