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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

Leon Trotsky

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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Guide History Leadership Position Time
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
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
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Believe Force Gravity
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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Establishment Power Socialism Victory
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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Country Effect Finding Man Production Vehicle
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
Revolutions are always verbose.
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One Liner Revolution
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
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
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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Camp Character Revolution Service
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
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
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
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Age Expression Fantasy Modern Ourselves Success Triumph
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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History Individual Isolate Yourself
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World

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