The historical ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind nature, of the conscious over the unconscious, of the rational over the instinctive, of the planned over the elemental.
— Leon Trotsky Modern

Russian revolutionary

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Literature and Revolution

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1924

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Shocking

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_rev/ch01.htm

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