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Can't you approach the young worker and tell him that the way to live is to work for life and not for death? Is it beneath American scholars to try to do that?... Your only salvation is in carrying the idea of socialism to the working class and coming back to storm—to storm, yes, to storm—the bastions of capitalism.

Isaac Deutscher

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher

Born: April 3, 1907

Died: August 19, 1967 (aged 60)

Bio: Isaac Deutscher was a Polish writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs.

Known for:

The prophet armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921 (1954)
Stalin, a political biography (1960)
The prophet unarmed (1959)
The prophet outcast: Trotsky, 1929-1940 (1963)
The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky

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