Leon Trotsky — "The old society has been torn to shreds. Now a new society must be built. This i…"
The old society has been torn to shreds. Now a new society must be built. This is the task of the new man.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Leon Trotsky
"The working class needs a state, but a state of a new type, a workers' state."
"Where force is necessary, there it is not a question of convincing, but of breaking."
"The old society has been radically reformed, but not abolished. The new society has not been born."
"The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence."
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes …"
About Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Russian revolutionary, Red Army organizer, and theorist of permanent revolution who lost the post-Lenin succession struggle and was assassinated in Mexico in 1940. Closely associated with Vladimir Lenin (revolutionary partner and 1917 ally). For an intellectual contrast, see Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (1924-1953) — Stalin exiled Trotsky in 1929, expunged him from Soviet history, and ordered his Mexico City ice-pick assassination in 1940. Their Permanent Revolution vs Socialism in One Country debate decided the Soviet 1920s succession — and Stalinist orthodoxy was defined by the loser's elimination.