In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle who does not work does not eat, has been replaced by a new one who does not obey shall not eat. (Leon Trotsky)

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle who does not work does not eat, has been replaced by a new one who does not obey shall not eat.

Leon Trotsky

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