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
believe gravity force
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
mean needs justified
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
country realization socialist
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
stupidity pillars united-states
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
war slave-owners different
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!
peace war circumstances
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
socialism socialist
The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.
death wisdom country
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
revolution defeat socialism
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.
long revolution
Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
religious ignorance government
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
communication party world
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution...
stupid mcdonalds abuse
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
country effort victory
Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.