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
distance two violence
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
party politics violence
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
personality political substance
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.
oxygen democracy body
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
victim aids executioners
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
patriotic reality people
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
party mediocrity outstanding
Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.
party organization politics
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
vegetarian quaker human-life
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.
fascism caricatures
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
things-in-life realization life-is
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old
party people lists
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
revenge powerful most-powerful
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
squares red offensive
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.