Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
Leon TrotskyAbusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, oneโs own and that of other people.
Leon TrotskyOnce again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
Leon TrotskySocialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the highest development. But in practise, it is not a question of the future socialist society, with an established internal equilibrium, but of the given technically and culturally backward country which in the interests of industrialisation and collectivization is forced to export as much as possible in order to import as much as possible.
Leon Trotsky