Leon Trotsky Quotes About Politics

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  • The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

  • In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

  • Revolutions are always verbose.

    Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.581, Haymarket Books
  • 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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

    Leon Trotsky (1937). “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?”, p.241, Mehring Books
  • 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!

    History of the Russian Revolution ch. 47 (1930) (translation by Max Eastman) See Birrell 1
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Leon Trotsky

  • Born: November 7, 1879
  • Died: August 21, 1940
  • Occupation: Revolutionary