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“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” — Leon Trotsky
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