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
men thinking people
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
thinking singing defeat
The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
thinking law way
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
arrive attempts bear daily fiction formal forms higher insofar life limited logic lower neither problems relationship science similar thinking understanding
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.
arrive attempts bear daily fiction formal forms higher insofar life limited logic lower neither nor problems relationship science similar thinking understanding
The dialectic is neither fiction nor 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.
contradict course create doctrine enter eternal further merely otherwise profound scientific spirit structural
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.
enjoy life
life is beautiful, enjoy it to the fullest.
conditions distance seems shortest violence
Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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.
eye dark socialism
If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
country world economy
Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the highest development. But in practise, it is not a question of the future socialist society, with an established internal equilibrium, but of the given technically and culturally backward country which in the interests of industrialisation and collectivization is forced to export as much as possible in order to import as much as possible.
chinese victory revolution
It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.