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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

Leon Trotsky

If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
LEON TROTSKY

Eyes Reach Socialism 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.
LEON TROTSKY

Age Expression Fantasy Modern Ourselves Success Triumph
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
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
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
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
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 party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Country Possible Realization Social
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Aspect Blind Force History Humanity Man Society Summary
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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Contradiction Permanent Recognition Revolution Theory
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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Candidate Election People Right
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
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
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

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