197 Quotes by Leon Trotsky

  • Author Leon Trotsky
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    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.

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    Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

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    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.

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    All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution...

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    If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

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    Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the highest development. But in practise, it is not a question of the future socialist society, with an established internal equilibrium, but of the given technically and culturally backward country which in the interests of industrialisation and collectivization is forced to export as much as possible in order to import as much as possible.

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  • Author Leon Trotsky
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    Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.

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    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.

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