Leon Trotsky quote: In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who ...

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

~ Leon Trotsky ~

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