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
Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions. — 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
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
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
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
For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue… — 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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