collected by Reg Green
Trotsky summed up peasant life in Russia as “icons and cockroaches.”
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…and, “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.” Thus, an icepick to the skull to cool a hothead is justified in establishing temperature and temperament equilibrium.
Icon and cockroaches, eh? So, he moved to Mexico?
Anastasia, Thanks for your admirably succinct comment. But don’t be surprised that Trotsky fled to Mexico. If the government of a whole country wants to kill you, you might not have much choice. And if you plan to build a career as a revolutionary there,what better place than somewhere teeming with the credulous and impoverished? After all, it had just worked beautifully for his former pals in Russia.