
“The completion of the socialist revolution within national limits is unthinkable.”
The Permanent Revolution (1929)
April 18, 1934. Attributed by Winston Churchill in Vol. 1 of The Second World War. (1948)
Disputed
“The completion of the socialist revolution within national limits is unthinkable.”
The Permanent Revolution (1929)
Source: The Managerial Revolution, 1941, p. 220–221; As cited in Marcel van der Linden (2007, p. 83)
As quoted in The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Thomas Childers, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017, p. 84. November 1925 Reichstag speech.
As quoted in Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism, Peter D. Stachura, Routledge (2015) p. 54
“There are no other alternatives; either a socialist revolution or a make-believe revolution.”
Message to the Tricontinental (1967)
Source: Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust (2011), p. 89
“We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.”
Statement to the South London Press in 1977 on moving constituencies away from Norwood in the 1977 GLC election. Quoted in Citizen Ken (1984) by John Carvel, p. 61
from the 1969 book Empire and Revolution.
1960s