Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky; born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; 7 November 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founding leader of the Red Army...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 November 1879
CountryRussian Federation
art law rebellion
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
patriotic reality people
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
country appreciate world
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.
inspirational country men
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
party people lists
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
country united-states strongest
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
may strategy business-strategy
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
fire ideas mind
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
mistake planning more-time
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
art inspiration creative
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'
history roles dustbin
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!
world illusion authority
The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.
art hands bridges
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.
fighting practice justice
There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.