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“The only mercy Trotsky granted the Germans, as formal negotiations began at Brest-Litovsk on December 9, was not to show up in person.”

Russian Revolution Trotsky Brest Litovsk

Book:The Russian Revolution: A New History

Source: The Russian Revolution: A New History

“[On Trotsky, at the Comintern's Sixth Congress:] . . . is this just ultra-revolutionary high-voltage subjectivism of a petty-bourgeois gone wild—or what?”

Trotsky Trotskyism

Author:Otto Wille Kuusinen

“There was more than a little truth in Trotsky's angry accusation of April 1912, after he had suffered the theft of the title of his journal [Pravda], that Lenin nourished himself on discord and chaos. But so did all revolutionary politicians, for revolutionary changes issue from profound crises. The bloody trenches of World War I created an enormous new revolutionary constituency, and only those leaders who knew how to exploit it would be prepared for the struggles that lay ahead.”

Lenin Trotsky 1990 Pravda 1912

Book:Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power

Source: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power

“In short Trotsky who, as we saw, had been as responsible as anyone for the creation of a state not based on workers’ democracy, held a vision of socialism which was just as state capitalist as Stalin’s.”

Socialism Communism Stalin Trotsky State Capitalism

Book:Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left

Source: Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left

“The disagreements between Stalin and Trotsky were real to a certain extent, but they were grossly inflated by the struggle for personal power and never amounted to two independent and coherent theories.”

Author:Leszek Kołakowski

“like all over-thrown Communist leaders he became a democrat as soon as he was ousted from power.”

Book:Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

“The state built up by the Bolsheviks reflects not only the thought and will of Bolshevism, but also the cultural level of the country, social composition of the population, the pressure of a barbaric past, and no less barbaric world imperialism. To represent the process of degeneration of the Soviet state as the evolution of pure Bolshevism is to ignore the social reality in the name of only one of its elements, isolated by pure logic. One has only to call this elementary mistake by its real name to do away with every trace of it”

Communism Soviet Union Marxism Bolshevism Trotsky

Book:Stalinism and Bolshevism: Concerning the Historical and Theoretical Roots of the Fourth International

Source: Stalinism and Bolshevism: Concerning the Historical and Theoretical Roots of the Fourth International

“First love will approach, caress and then embrace you. Afterwards, it will start pulling itself out slowly. Leaving you with its opposite feelings; which is hate.”

Love Caress Hate Quotes Feelings Of Love Embrace Life Slowly Approachability Quotes Pulling Out

Author:Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I hate pulling out... I mean, I'm really bad at the whole parking thing....”

Humor Hate Parking Pulling Out

Book:And That’s Why I’m Single

Source: And That’s Why I’m Single

“The Enlightenment was a false dawn. We need a second and final Enlightenment, driven by mathematics rather than science, by reason rather than sensory observation. Come join us in Castalia. We shall pull up the drawbridges and create a rational paradise, free of all the errors of the past and the failed values that accompanied them. In Castalia, HyperHumanity will be born. We shall bring the stars to life. In Hoc Signo Vinces.”

Enlightenment Ontological Mathematics Hyperhumanity Castalia

Book:Castalia: The Citadel of Reason

Source: Castalia: The Citadel of Reason