Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced with a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
— Leon Trotsky Modern

Russian revolutionary

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From 'The Revolution Betrayed'

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1936

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