Trotsky

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    The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces—in nature, in society, in man himself.
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

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

    The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting—the war and the revolution—and the character of the accused—revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power—you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)