Leon Trotsky Quotes About Victory

Quotes about: Victory

• To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Essence, Class

• Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Men, Victory

  Leon Trotsky (1999). “The Transitional Program & the Struggle for Socialism”, p.59, Resistance Books

• The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

  Leon Trotsky

  Nature, Taken, Men

  Leon Trotsky (1980). “The History of the Russian Revolution”, Anchor Foundation

• 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

• It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Victory, Unions

  Source: www.marxists.org

• Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.

  Leon Trotsky

  Fighting, Order, Justice

  Leon Trotsky (1958). “Diary in Exile, 1935”, Cambridge : Harvard University Press

• Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.

  Leon Trotsky

  Giving, Victory, Impossible

  Source: www.marxists.org

• To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Victory, Bourgeoisie

  Source: www.marxists.org

• Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Effort, Victory

  Source: www.marxists.org

• For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Russia, Organization

  Source: www.marxists.org

• It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.

  Leon Trotsky

  Chinese Revolution, Europe, Victory

  Source: www.marxists.org

• In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Past, Years

  Source: www.marxists.org

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