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“The most indubitable feature of a revolution is the direct /*/
*interference of the masses in historical events. In ordinary times the *
*state, be it monarchical or democratic, elevates itself above the *
*nation, and history is made by specialists in that line of business - *
*kings, ministers, bureaucrats, parliamentarians, journalists. But at *
*those crucial moments when the old order becomes no longer endurable to *
*the masses, they break over the barriers excluding them from the *
*political arena, sweep aside their traditional representatives, and *
*create by their own interference the initial groundwork for a new *
*regime. Whether this is good or bad we leave to the judgement of *
*moralists. We ourselves will take the facts as they are given by the *
*objective course of development. The history of a revolution is for us *
*first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the *
*realm of rulership over their own destiny”*/

(Leon Trotsky, preface to /History of the Russian Revolution/)


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