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
mean sole employers
Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation
war mean fighting
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.
fall mean culture
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
mean leader
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
freedom philosophy mean
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
mean needs justified
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
conditions distance seems shortest violence
Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
enjoy life
life is beautiful, enjoy it to the fullest.
comrade macdonald
Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.
discussion great russian-revolutionary time
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
stupid mcdonalds abuse
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade McDonald abuses the privilege.
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Dialectical materialism is not of course an eternal and immutable philosophy. To think otherwise is to contradict the spirit of the dialectic. Further development of scientific thought will undoubtedly create a more profound doctrine into which dialectical materialism will enter merely as structural material.
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The dialectic is not a magic master key for all questions. It does not replace concrete scientific analysis. But it directs this analysis along the correct road, securing it against sterile wanderings in the desert of subjectivism and scholasticism.
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The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.