Characteristics Quote by Leon Trotsky

Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic…

— Leon Trotsky

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

— Whittaker Chambers

“Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.”

— Christopher Hitchens

[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

— Leon Trotsky

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem,…

— albert camus

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

— Noam Chomsky

I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

— Joseph Stalin

However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the…

— Louis Althusser

Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and…

— Leon Trotsky

“The Party justified its “dictatorship” through purity of faith. Their Scriptures were the teachings of Marxism-Leninism, regarded as a “scientific” truth. Since ideology was…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Conspiracy theories explaining the Bolshevik victory gained widespread credence: the most popular of these was that of international Jewish conspiracy, since Trotsky, Zinoviev, and…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick