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title: "5 Trotskyism Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-serge/he-who-does-not-cry-out-the-truth-when-he-knows-the-truth-becomes-the/)

[Victor Serge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-serge/)

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> [“I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-have-been-taunted-on-various-platforms-recently-for-becoming-a-neo/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/trotsky-was-so-much-an-intellectual-that-in-the-final-analysis/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [ Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of \[Joseph Stalin\] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-trotsky/can-and-must-the-proclamation-of-this-new-conception-of-joseph-stalin/)

[Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-trotsky/)

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> [Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-p-cannon/trotskyism-is-not-a-new-movement-a-new-doctrine-but-the-restoration/)

[James P. Cannon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-p-cannon/)

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