Exile Quote by Whittaker Chambers

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in…

— James P. Cannon

“Lucitta knew Russian politics, and discussed how Trotsky was compelled by Stalin’s régime to deny many of his beliefs. It seemed that Mella, believing…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“This was the first of the St. Augustines. Previous memos had borne messages from Zwingli, Lévi-Strauss, Rilke, Chekhov, Tillich, William Blake, Charles Olson and…

— Don DeLillo

Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says that the…

— Noam Chomsky

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

— Peter Kropotkin

[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

I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make…

— Brian Cox

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

— C. L. R. James

Leon Trotsky, Stalin's worst enemy, was far and away his most influential 20th-century interpreter, shaping the views of a generation of historians, from Isaac…

— Anne Applebaum

“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