Leon Trotsky Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• ‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Struggle, Class

  Leon Trotsky (1970). “Germany, 1931-1932”

• 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.

  Leon Trotsky

  Communication, Party, Revolution

  Leon Trotsky (2000). “Their Morals and Ours: The Marxist View of Morality”, p.49, Resistance Books

• The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, People, Lists

• 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.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Organization, Politics

• The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Party, Character

  Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.596, Penguin UK

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Wisdom, Party, Politics

• In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Party, Ideas

  Source: www.marxists.org

• Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".

  Leon Trotsky

  Real, Party, Struggle

  Source: www.marxists.org

• In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time elsewhere. For the victory are necessary, not only certain objective conditions, internal as well as external, but also certain subjective factors - the Party, the leadership, the strategy.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Russia, Victory

  Source: www.marxists.org

• The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Party, Revolution

  Source: www.marxists.org

• 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.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Differences, Desire

  Leon Trotsky (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.605, Haymarket Books

• Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Mediocrity, Outstanding

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