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.
LEON TROTSKYI emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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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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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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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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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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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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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.
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