Unicorn
19th April 2008, 20:01
The party in the last analysis is always right because the party is the single historic instrument given to the proletariat for the solution of its fundamental problems. I have already said that in front of one's own party nothing could be easier than to say: all my criticisms, my statements, my warnings, my protests -- the whole thing was a mere mistake. I, however, comrades, cannot say that, because I do not think it. I know that one must not be right against the party. One can be right only with the party, and through the party, for history has created no other road for the realization of what is right.
- Trotsky at the thirteenth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1924
http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1960/xx/trotsub.htm
- Trotsky at the thirteenth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1924
http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1960/xx/trotsub.htm