Leon Trotsky Quotes about Struggle

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Struggle, Serious, Cruelty

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

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come whenever they want to. When there is little goods, the purchasers are compelled to stand in line. When the lines are very long, it is necessary to appoint a policeman to keep order. Such is the starting point of the power of the Soviet bureaucracy. It "knows" who is to get something and who has to wait.

Leon Trotsky

Struggle, Order, Long

Leon Trotsky, (2013). “The Revolution Betrayed”, p.88, Read Books Ltd

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

Leon Trotsky

Party, Struggle, Class

Leon Trotsky (1970). “Germany, 1931-1932”

The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

Leon Trotsky

War, Struggle, Support

Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau, July 1936.

Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

Leon Trotsky

Powerful, Struggle, Ukraine

The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with the Stalinists. Not having the possibility of occupying myself here with long historical researches, I will limit myself to a single illustration. The Dnieprostroy is considered with right as the highest achievement of Soviet industrialization. Yet [Joseph] Stalin and his followers ([Clim] Voroshilov and others) a few months before the beginning of the work were decided opponents of the Dnieprostroy plan.

Leon Trotsky

Struggle, Years, Illustration

Source: www.marxists.org

Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".

Leon Trotsky

Real, Party, Struggle

Source: www.marxists.org

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

Leon Trotsky

Struggle, Years, Favors

Source: www.marxists.org

Leon Trotsky Quotes about Struggle

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