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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.

Leon Trotsky

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
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
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Convince Head Yourself
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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Guide History Leadership Position Time
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
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Literature Mirror Shave
The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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Development Law Position Revolution
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Cruelty Serious Struggle Time Worst
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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Agreement Blow Bold Decisive Force Necessary
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Believe Force Gravity
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
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union

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