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On reading Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution we are struck by a fundamental contradiction: as an honest historian he shows us just how much the Party lagged behind the masses, and as a Bolshevik theorist he must reaffirm that the Party was necessary for the succession of the revolution.

— Daniel Cohn-Bendit Obsolete Communism:The Left Wing Alternative (1968)

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What is the future? We cannot produce a blueprint, the future alone can evolve that. What we must agree on, rather are the general principles of the society we want to create.

Obsolete Communism:The Left Wing Alternative (1968)

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