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.
LEON TROTSKYAbusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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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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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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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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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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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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