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
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.
country appreciate world
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.
world illusion authority
The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.
freedom political world
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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...
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.
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.
accomplish grain moved
Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.