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
agreement force
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
party organization politics
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
vegetarian quaker human-life
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.
revolution determined revolutionary
The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
inspirational revolution politics
Revolutions are always verbose.
character past roots
Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
freedom philosophy mean
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
exhaling doe crisis
...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
freedom political world
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
victim aids executioners
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
party politics violence
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
struggle party class
The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
struggle
Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.
men political-will class
Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.