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| | Leon Trotsky: 1905: Chapter 31 My Speech Before the Court Meeting of October 4 (17) 1907 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Let the court tell us that the manifesto of October 17 is a real legal foundation upon which we republicans could exist as persons of legality, persons who acted within the law, despite our opinions and intentions. |
 | | But if this manifesto is the foundation of the whole new system in force, we must recognize, gentlemen of the court, that our present state system is based on panic, and that the panic, in turn, was based on the political strike of the proletariat. |
 | | The manifesto of October 17 was received with a vote of no confidence; the masses feared, and with good reason, that the government would fail to introduce the promised freedoms. |
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