Leon Trotsky Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• 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

  History, Roles, Politics

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

• 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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.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

  Death, Wisdom, Country

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

• Revolutions are always verbose.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Revolution, Politics

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.581, Haymarket Books

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Wisdom, Party, Politics

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