“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), p. 41
Quotes from book
The Revolution Betrayed
Leon Trotsky
Original title
Преданная революция
,
Что такое СССР и куда он идет?
(Russian, 1936)
The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? is a book published in 1937 by the exiled Soviet Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. This work analyzed and criticized the course of historical development in the Soviet Union following the death of Lenin in 1924 and is regarded as Trotsky's primary work dealing with the nature of Stalinism. The book was written by Trotsky during his exile in Norway and was originally translated into Spanish by Victor Serge. The most widely available English translation is by Max Eastman.
Ch. 11 https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch11.htm
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), p. 40 in Doubleday, Doran & Company edition (1937)
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Ch. 11
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Ch. 8
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Ch. 7
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
“Independent character is like independent thought, it cannot be developed without criticism.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Ch. 7
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Ch. 4, Section 3 : The Rehabilitation of the Ruble
“No, the Soviet woman is not yet free.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Ch. 7,
Context: No, the Soviet woman is not yet free. Complete equality before the law has so far given infinitely more to the women of the upper strata, representatives of bureaucratic, technical, pedagogical and, in general, intellectual work, than to the working women and yet more the peasant women. So long as society is incapable of taking upon itself the material concern for the family, the mother can successfully fulfill a social function only on the condition that she has in her service a white slave: nurse, servant, cook, etx.
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Ch. 11
