Leon Trotsky Quotes

In Russia bureaucracy as the ruling class is master of production and produce, and the Russian workers are an exploited class.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Many workers already realize that the rule of the Socialist or Communist party will be only the concealed form of the rule of the bourgeois class in which the exploitation and suppression of the working class remains.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism

I am not a communist.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Communism is nonsense.

The Soviets, where ten percent of the population controls the entire public by dictatorship. This will certainly not last long, in light of the historical dialectic

At war with the totalitarian states, primarily with German fascism, the democracies cannot be regarded as the arch-foe of the proletariat.

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

Marxist literature dealt with wage exploitation, exploitation of women by men, the exploitation of people of color by white peoples, the exploitation of colonial countries by imperialist countries. And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

England, the country that turns whole nations into its proletarians … seems to be the rock against which the revolutionary waves break.

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

Governmental Communism … is repugnant to the worker.

The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental.

Be committed to … smashing feudalists, conservatives, and imperialists who are "reactionaries".

There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”