Leon Trotsky quotes - page 6

I feel here that this time they have succeeded. (Leon Trotsky)
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. View quote
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Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. View quote
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Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it. View quote
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Inside the Party, Stalin has put himself above all criticism and the State. It is impossible to displace him except by assassination. Every oppositionist becomes ipso facto a terrorist. View quote
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Repression for the attainment of economic ends is a necessary weapon of the socialist dictatorship. View quote
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Stalin's Problems of Leninism constitutes a codification of this ideological garbage, an official manual of narrow-mindedness, an anthology of enumerated banalities. View quote
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Stalin, through Pravda, openly advised the local organs not to give them [the opposition] work. In a country where the sole employer is the state, this means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced with a new one: 'who does not obey shall not eat.' View quote
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