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.
LEON TROTSKYBureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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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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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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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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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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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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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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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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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