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.
LEON TROTSKYThe 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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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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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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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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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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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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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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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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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