No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence … - Leon Trotsky

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Leon Trotsky

No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

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