Leon Trotsky Quotes

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

To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

In the class-struggle the conflict must always concern itself with immediate, practical objects

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

I'm a Marxist.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

There is no alternative to class struggle.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

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.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Communism is nonsense.

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

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