Leon Trotsky

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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!

Leon Trotsky

To the Mensheviks, who were more moderate than the Bolsheviks.

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Trotsky, Leon. История русской революции [History of the Russian Revolution]. Vol. 2, H. Atkinson, 1933.

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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

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Trotsky, Leon. "Their Morals and Ours." The New International, June 1938.

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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

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Read What Next? at marxists.org

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Trotsky, Leon. What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat. Pioneer Publishers, 1932, ch. 14.

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It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

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Trotsky, Leon. Моя Жизнь [My Life]. Charles Scribner's Sons/Thornton Butterworth, 1930, ch. 40.

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Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

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Literature and Revolution

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Trotsky, Leon. Литература и революция [Literature and Revolution]. Soviet Government, 1924.

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Trotsky, Leon. Literature and Revolution, edited by William Keach. Haymarket Books, 2005.

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