Fuck Yeah Trotsky

Fuck Yeah Trotsky

"If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes." - Leon Trotsky

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marxmaterialized:

Trotskyist graffiti, Mexico City

marxmaterialized:

Trotskyist graffiti, Mexico City

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target="_blank" List of all the pseudonyms Trotsky used ←

Alright comrades we all need to take a collective trip to Trotsky’s house.

marxmaterialized:

Can we do that?

Like, as an after-revolution party?

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target="_blank" What is the real Marxist tradition? ←

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

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The Russian Revolution (1930)

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces — in nature, in society, in man himself.

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The Russian Revolution (1930)

The German soldiers, that is, the workers and peasants, will in the majority of cases have far more sympathy for the vanquished peoples than for their own ruling caste. The necessity to act at every step in the capacity of ‘pacifiers’ and oppressors will swiftly disintegrate the armies of occupation, infecting them with a revolutionary spirit.

— Manuscript from 1940, as translated in Writings of Leon Trotsky‎ by George Breitman

1932: with natalia sedova (aged 52)

1932: with natalia sedova (aged 52)

Late that evening, as we were waiting for the opening of the congress of the Soviets,Lenin and I were resting in a room ad joining the meeting-hall, a room entirely empty except for chairs. Some one had spread a blanket on the floor for us; some one else, I think it was Lenin’s sister, had brought us pillows. We were lying side by side; body and soul were relaxing like overtaut Strings. It was a well-earned rest. We could not sleep, so we talked in low voices.

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Trotsky, My Life

I proudly sail this ship

I will go down with this ship

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Trotsky, he observed, “knew no laughter but of mockery”.

— Trotsky’s friend - Max Eastman

Trotsky, a caricature by Nikolai Bukharin

Trotsky, a caricature by Nikolai Bukharin

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