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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.

Leon Trotsky

Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
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
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
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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End Justification Need
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Life Old Oneself Realize Surprise
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
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
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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Destiny Entrance Force History Revolution Rule

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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