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
war mean fighting
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.
fighting order justice
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.
fighting practice justice
There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
beautiful strong fighting
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
conditions distance seems shortest violence
Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
enjoy life
life is beautiful, enjoy it to the fullest.
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.
stupid mcdonalds abuse
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade McDonald abuses the privilege.
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.
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.
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.