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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

Leon Trotsky
Death, Wisdom, Country
Leon Trotsky (1937). “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?”, p.241, Mehring Books
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.