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“[Marxism] made clear the real task of a revolutionary socialist party: not to draw up plans for refashioning society, not to preach to the capitalists and their hangers on about improving the lot of workers, not to hatch conspiracies, but to organize the class struggle of the proletariat and to lead this struggle, the ultimate aim of which is the conquest of political power by the proletariat…”
— Feb 21, 2022 09:21AM
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“A revolution takes place only when there is no other way out. And the insurrection, which rises above a revolution like a peak in the mountain chain of events, can no more be evoked by will than the revolution as a whole.” -Trotsky
— Mar 21, 2022 12:16PM
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“Our is a bourgeois revolution, therefore, the workers must support the bourgeoisie, say the [Mensheviks].
Ours is a bourgeois revolution, we Marxists say, therefore the workers must open the eyes of the people to the deception practiced by the bourgeois politicians… to depend entirely on their own strength, their own organization, their own unity, and their own weapons.” -Lenin
— Mar 21, 2022 09:37AM
Ours is a bourgeois revolution, we Marxists say, therefore the workers must open the eyes of the people to the deception practiced by the bourgeois politicians… to depend entirely on their own strength, their own organization, their own unity, and their own weapons.” -Lenin
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As Trotsky later commented, “the will to struggle is not stored up in advance, and is not dictated from above – it has in every occasion to be independently renewed and tempered.”
— Mar 19, 2022 11:23PM
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“Only what is taken by force / Will live, will be holy, / Will be taken forever.” -Evgeny Tarasov
— Mar 19, 2022 12:13PM
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“Whoever is unable to admit initiative, talent, energy and heroism into the framework of historical necessity has not grasped the philosophical secret of Marxism.” -Trotsky
— Feb 21, 2022 09:24AM
