Trotsky

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    Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain—at least in a poor country like Russia—and his vanity begins to swell out like his tyres. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

    In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a “dictator” substitutes himself for the central committee.
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

    The literary “fellow travelers” of the Revolution.
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)