Leon Trotsky Quotes about Reality

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

Leon Trotsky

Animal, Reality, Men

"Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky".

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Leon Trotsky

Patriotic, Reality, People

Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.764, Haymarket Books

The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

Leon Trotsky

Lying, Reality, Wish

Leon Trotsky, Joseph Hansen, George Edward Novack, James Burnham (1965). “In Defense of Marxism: Against the Petty-bourgeois Opposition”