Leon Trotsky Quotes
We can only be right with and by the Party, for history has provided no other way of being in the right... And if the Party adopts a decision which one or other of us thinks unjust, he will say, just or unjust, it is my party, and I shall support the consequences of the decision to the end.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. Unfortunately, such party loyalty was not limited to the Communists. Excessive and unconditional party loyalty, and the extreme partisanship that goes with it, plagues many American politicians to the detriment of the country.
Leon Trotsky, 1879-1940, Russian Revolutionist, Speech at the 13th Communist Party Congress, May 1924
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Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky (/ˈtrɒtski/), was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism which has become known as Trotskyism.
