Leon Trotsky Quotes

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

Leon Trotsky

• Bureaucracy
• Proletariat
• Rearguard

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  Leon Trotsky
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  • Proletariat
  • Rearguard