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
dying last-words feels
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
country victory socialism
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
men average voice
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.
revolutionary existence significance
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.
revenge powerful most-powerful
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
fascism caricatures
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
powerful europe united-states
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
new-york philosophy expression
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
lasts england revolutionary
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
party differences desire
The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.
mirrors literature shaving
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?
destiny rulership firsts
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
country effort victory
For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.
squares red offensive
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.