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
party politics violence
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
struggle
Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.
beautiful evil violence
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
war party character
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
country victory revolution
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.
writing technique cases
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
reactions fascism capitalist
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
war essence class
To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory.
revolution
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
life fall sadness
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
country party revolution
The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
philosophy mistake class
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.
National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.
oxygen democracy body
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.