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What, however, is our relation to revolution? Civil war is the most severe of all forms of war. It is unthinkable not only without violence against t… - Leon Trotsky
" "What, however, is our relation to revolution? Civil war is the most severe of all forms of war. It is unthinkable not only without violence against tertiary figures but, under contemporary technique, without murdering old men, old women and children... There is no impervious demarcation between ‘peaceful’ class struggle and revolution. Every strike embodies in an unexpanded form all the elements of civil war.
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About Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky (Лев Давидович Троцкий; born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; Лев Давидович Бронштейн]; 7 November (O.S. 26 October) 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Russian Marxist, intellectual, and revolutionary. In the early Soviet Union, he founded the Politburo, served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and created and led the Red Army. After Lenin's death, Trotsky was exiled for his opposition to Joseph Stalin's policies. His 1940 assassination (with an ice axe) in Mexico was carried out by a Soviet agent (Ramón Mercader) at Stalin's behest.
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Also Known As
Pen Names:
Троцкий
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Перо
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Антид Ото
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Л. Седов
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Старик
Native Name:
Лейба Давидович Бронштейн
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Лев Давидович Троцкий
Alternative Names:
Lev Bronstein
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Lev Davidovich Bronshtein
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Lev Davidovich Bronstein
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Leon Trotski
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Trotsky
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Lev Davidovich Bronshteyn
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Lev Bronshteyn
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Lev Trotsky
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Trotskiy
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Lev Trotskiy
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Lev Davidovich Trotsky
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Lev Davidovich Trotskiy
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Man will make it his purpose to master his own feelings, to raise his instincts to the heights of consciousness, to make them transparent, to extend the wires of his will into hidden recesses, and thereby to raise himself to a new plane, to create a higher social biologic type, or, if you please, a superman.
This was attributed to Trotsky in an epigraph in Night Soldiers: A Novel (1988) by Alan Furst but it may actually be a revision of a statement earlier attributed to Trotsky: "You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you." Only a very loose translation of "the dialectic" would produce "war."
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