Class Quote by Leon Trotsky

Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp…

— Leon Trotsky

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

— Leon Trotsky

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people…

— George Oppen

“when the moderates were driven out, the radicals moved in,”

— James A. Michener

“Ironically, then, by the 1930s large segments of the radical Left had come to agree with what national socialists and fascists had long argued:…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling…

— Terence McKenna

“the Left’s current inability to formulate a critique of bureaucracy that actually speaks to its erstwhile constituents is synonymous with the decline of the…

— David Graeber

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

— Ambrose Bierce

“An interlocking set of new enemies was emerging: globalization, foreigners, multiculturalism, environmental regulation, high taxes, and the incompetent politicians who could not cope with…

— Robert O. Paxton

The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with…

— Leon Trotsky

To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the…

— Natan Sharansky

The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today,…

— Barry Goldwater