9 Quotes by Leon Trotsky about communism
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.
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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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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.
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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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He who thinks of renouncing "physical" struggle must renounce all struggle, for the spirit does not live without the flesh.
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In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.
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You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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