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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.

Leon Trotsky

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
LEON TROTSKY

Art Law
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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.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
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
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
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 fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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Creation Foundation Powerful World
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
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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Better Ignorance Problem Revolution Talk
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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Particular Possible Quite Violence
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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Man Place Victory Woman Work
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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Desire Force Freedom Government Independence Powerful Repression Struggle
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
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Easy Frustration Greatness Life Misery Personal Raise Weakness

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