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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
Stalinism and fascism, in spite of a deep difference in social foundations, are symmetrical phenomena. In many of their features they show a deadly similarity.
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
Every revolutionary party finds its chief support in the younger generation of the rising class. Political decay expresses itself in a loss of ability to attract youth.
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
The owl of wisdom flies, as is well known, after sunset. Thus the theory of a "socialist" system of money and prices was developed only after twilight of inflationist illusions.
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
Independent character is like independent thought, it cannot be developed without criticism.
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
The [Soviet Union] bureaucracy not only has not disappeared, yielding its place to the masses, but has turned into an uncontrolled force dominating the masses.
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
No, the Soviet woman is not yet free.
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
As though to complete the mockery of literature, Stalin, who does not know how to compose a Russian phrase correctly, is declared a classic in the matter of style
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
Stalin, through Pravda, openly advised the local organs not to give them [the opposition] work. In a country where the sole employer is the state, this 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.'
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
The Soviet bureaucracy is like all ruling classes in that it is ready to shut its eyes to the crudest mistakes of its leaders in the sphere of general politics, provided in return they show an unconditional fidelity in the defense of its privileges.
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)