Trotsky was a characteristic example of a man who, in order to live, strove to integrate himself into history and whose intelligence never ceased subordinating itself to the sense of history. He says this clearly in the final pages of My Life. That at the end this doctrine and this voluntarism confounded his thought at a moment when real—historical—lucidity perhaps ceased to be possible, with neither analyses nor syntheses being doable in the rush of events, changes nothing in the case. He carried on the fight with weapons that had become insufficient. It must be noted that he was brave; that
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