The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
Leon TrotskyThe people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
Leon TrotskyThe bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.
Leon Trotsky