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
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.
war party character
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
country victory revolution
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.
writing technique cases
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
reactions fascism capitalist
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
war essence class
To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory.