The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party]. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.' — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of natural law… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
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