Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
LEON TROTSKYThe usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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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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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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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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Revolutions are always verbose.
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