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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

Leon Trotsky

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
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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Capital Catastrophe Moral Party Revolution Social Society Survive
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
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
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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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Country Employer Obedience Principle State
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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Candidate Election People Right
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
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
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Advantage Draw Ourselves Revolution Time Try
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality

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