Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
LEON TROTSKY
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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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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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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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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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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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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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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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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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