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.
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. - Leon Trotsky
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
- Leon Trotsky
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. - Leon Trotsky
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege. - Leon Trotsky
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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… - Leon Trotsky
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…
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. - Leon Trotsky
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen. - Leon Trotsky
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies. - Leon Trotsky
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party]. - Leon Trotsky
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… - Leon Trotsky
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only…
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