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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

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
LEON TROTSKY

Destiny Entrance Force History Revolution Rule
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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Accomplishment Act Explanation Forget Man Name Revolution
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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Colonial Imperialism Struggle Support War
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
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
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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Determination Forever Method Usage
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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Condition Correct Objective Victory
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
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
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
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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Country Detail History Hope Ideas Impossible Myself Revolution Willing
‎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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Betrayal Grave Serve Work
Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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Country Fulfill Impossible Possible Task
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
LEON TROTSKY

Communism Democracy Need Oxygen

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