Talk:Leon Trotsky

The hotly controversial "you may not be interested in war..." seem totally made-up, though it's definitely in the Alan Furst book (read it -- it's a good one), so I'm really intrigued as to whether he coined it or got it from somewhere else. What I can say, is that an hour of searching on the Russian google, using terms война, Троцкий, "не интересует," диалект, etc. yielded NOTHING! Furst's web site is: http://www.alanfurst.net/main.htm if anyone wants to try to force an explanation from him.

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• Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

• You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you.

• We must accept decisively and without any reservation the complete and unconditional right of the blacks to independence . . . The proletarian revolutionaries must never forget the right of the oppressed nationalities to self-determination, including full separation, and the duty of the proletariat of the oppressing nation to defend this right with arms if necessary. . .
  • Unspecified writings on South Africa (1935)

• Under the terrible blows of fate I will feel as happy as during the best days of my youth if I can join you in facilitating its victory. For, my friends, the highest human happiness lies not in the exploitation of the present, but in the preparation of the future.

British labour movement

The following website has a Trotsky quote that may be of interest: http://dar2dream.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/glenn-tweedledum-beck-george-bernard-shaw-was-an-evil-man/ --达伟 16:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Deustscher quote

How exactly could Isaac Deutscher have said the quote attributed to him 'sometime in the 1970s' when he died in 1967?: —This unsigned comment is by 99.250.62.143 (talk • contribs) .

Examining George Will's anecdote in his 1994 book, I have corrected the date of the comment attributed to Deutscher to 1964. He has subsequently referred to it more vaguely with more ambiguous dating than was provided there. ~ ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:24, 22 January 2012 (UTC)