[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir]… — 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
What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a… — 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… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national… — 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
The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the ruling classes did not take the trouble in good season to teach… — 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
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“We seek to uncover behind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale references to the “spontaneity” of the movement,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Anarchism is an attempt to cleanse… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and… — 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
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum… — 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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