Trotskyism Quotes

“‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.”
― Leon Trotsky

“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.”
― Victor Serge, From Lenin to Stalin

“Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“Global digital parasitism is the new Trotskyism.”
― David Cronenberg, Consumed

“I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way that neo-conservativism is Trotskyism and 'permanent revolution' reborn.

Sometimes, you have to comb an overt anti-Semitism out of this propaganda before you can even read it straight. And I can guarantee you that none of these characters has any idea at all of what the theory of 'permanent revolution' originally meant.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“[On Trotsky, at the Comintern's Sixth Congress:] . . . is this just ultra-revolutionary high-voltage subjectivism of a petty-bourgeois gone wild—or what?”
― Otto Wille Kuusinen