March 9, 2012

Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed, trans. Max Eastman (1937; repr. Dover, 2004 ).

"They [the youth] have, thus, but three possibilities open to them: participate in the bureaucracy and make a career; submit silently to oppression, retire into economic work, science or their own petty personal affairs; or, finally, go underground and learn to struggle and temper their character for the future" (123).