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All decisive revolutionary processes must begin and have begun with certain missteps for the reason that we have mentioned: because the existing points of departure are those left by the preceding historical period, and they are used, even if unconsciously.

— Régis Debray Révolution dans la révolution? (1967)

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Condemned to exist in the present within the categories of the past, Trotskyism withers on the vine.

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Today, self-defense as a system and as a reality has been liquidated by the march of events.

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In each country that has experienced a revolution a confrontation has taken place between revolutionaries on one side and reformists and future renegades on the other.

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In order to destroy one army, another army is necessary, and this ipmlies training, discipline, and arms. Freternity and bravery do not make an army. Witness Spain, and the Paris Commune.

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We know that Trotskyism flies in the face of common sense, in that its strength lies in its division. It is everywhere and nowhere. It exposes itself by hiding itself. It is never what it is, Trotskyist.

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