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
revolution
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
trying revolutionary realistic
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.
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.
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.
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.
giving victory impossible
Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
writing revolution january
[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.
bureaucracy
Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.
stupid mcdonalds abuse
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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.
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.
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.
conditions distance seems shortest violence
Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
pavement fascists convince
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.