León Trotski: Frases en inglés (página 5)

“The Constituent Assembly placed itself across the path of the revolutionary movement, and was swept aside.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Terrorism and Communism

Fuente: Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 2

“It would be childish to think that the Stalin bureaucracy can be removed by means of a Party or Soviet Congress. Normal, constitutional means are no longer available for the removal of the ruling clique … They can be compelled to hand over power to the Proletarian vanguard only by FORCE.”

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Leon Trotsky

Bulletin of the Opposition, October 1933. Quote from Harpal Brar's Trotskyism or Leninism? p. 625

“Capital was really safer in Russia than anywhere else. … No true Marxist would allow sentiment to interfere with business.”

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Leon Trotsky

During a 1921 meeting with American businessman Armand Hammer, as quoted in Hammer: Witness to History by Hammer and Neil Lyndon (1988), p. 160

“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces — in nature, in society, in man himself.”

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Leon Trotsky

The Russian Revolution (1930)

“In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.”

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Leon Trotsky libro La revolución traicionada

Ch. 11 https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch11.htm
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

“Both Hitler and Mussolini have plagiarized and imitated practically everything from everyone. Mussolini stole from the Bolsheviks and from Gabriele D'Annunzio, and found inspiration in the camp of big business. Hitler imitated the Bolsheviks and Mussolini.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Stalin

Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence (1941), translated by Charles Malamuth, p. 412

“Man will make it his purpose to master his own feelings, to raise his instincts to the heights of consciousness, to make them transparent, to extend the wires of his will into hidden recesses, and thereby to raise himself to a new plane, to create a higher social biologic type, or, if you please, a superman.”

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Leon Trotsky

Literature and Marxism (1924)

“One thing is clear. Every passing day will deepen the policy of the proletariat in power, and more and more define is class character. Side beside with that, the revolutionary ties between the proletariat and the nation will be broken, the class disintegration of the peasantry will assume political form, and the antagonism between the component sections will grow in proportion as the policy of the workers' government defines itself, ceasing to be a general-democractic and becoming a class policy.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Results and Prospects

Results and Prospects (1905)

“The proletariat, once having taken power, will fight for it to the very end. While one of the weapons in this struggle for the maintenance and the consolidation of power will be agitation and organization, especially in the countryside, another will be a policy of collectivism. Collectivism will become not only the inevitable way forward from the position in which the party in power will find itself, but will also be a means of preserving this position with the support of the proletariat.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Results and Prospects

Results and Prospects (1905)

“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.”

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Leon Trotsky libro La revolución traicionada

Fuente: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), p. 41

“Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.”

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Leon Trotsky

Statement of 1918, as quoted in Trotsky : The Eternal Revolutionary (1996) by Dmitri Volkogonov, p. 213

“The peasantry, having lifted itself up out of its medieval status, cannot politically generate it's own rage. — Speech in Paris, 1934”

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Leon Trotsky

“Lenin's methods [of "hard" centralism and mistrust of the working class] lead 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. … The party must seek the guarantee of its stability in its own base, in an active and self-reliant proletariat, and not in its top caucus … which the revolution may suddenly sweep away with its wing.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Our Political Tasks

"Our Political Tasks" (1904), as quoted in The Prophet Armed (1963) by Isaac Deutscher

“The fascist movement in Italy was a spontaneous movement of large masses, with new leaders from the rank and file. It is a plebian movement in origin, directed and financed by big capitalist powers. It issued forth from the petty bourgeoisie, the slum proletariat, and even to a certain extent from the proletarian masses; Mussolini, a former socialist, is a "self-made" man arising from this movement.”

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Leon Trotsky

Fuente: Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944), Ch. 1

“In times of peace, the capitalists used to guarantee their interests by means of the "peaceful" robbery of hired labor. During the war they served those same interests by means of the destruction of countless human lives.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Terrorism and Communism

Fuente: Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 3

“Terror can be very efficient against a reactionary class which does not want to leave the scene of operations. Intimidation is a powerful weapon of policy, both internationally and internally. War, like revolution, is founded upon intimidation.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Terrorism and Communism

Terrorism and Communism (1920)

“The road to socialism lies through a period of the highest possible intensification of the principle of the state … Just as a lamp, before going out, shoots up in a brilliant flame, so the state, before disappearing, assumes the form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, i. e., the most ruthless form of state, which embraces the life of the citizens authoritatively in every direction.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Terrorism and Communism

Fuente: Terrorism and Communism (1920), p. 177

“No one yet has learned to drive a locomotive sitting in his study.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Terrorism and Communism

Fuente: Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 7, p. 101

“In a revolutionary period, the party which has been thrown from power, which does not reconcile itself with the stability of the ruling class, and which proves this by its desperate struggle against the latter, cannot be terrorized by the threat of imprisonment, as it does not believe in its duration. It is just this simple but decisive fact that explains the widespread recourse to shooting in a civil war.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Terrorism and Communism

Fuente: Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 4 : Terrorism, p. 55

“It could and must, be explained that in the civil war we destroyed the White Guards in order that they should not destroy the workers. Consequently, our problem is not the destruction of human life, but its preservation. But as we have to struggle for the preservation of human life with arms in our hands, it leads to the destruction of human life - a puzzle the dialectical secret of which was explained by old Hegel, without reckoning other still more ancient sages.”

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Leon Trotsky libro Terrorism and Communism

Fuente: Terrorism and Communism (1920), Chapter three, p. 53