career-chasing

Updated: May 14, 2025

Thus, within the limits of its formlessness, this party contained not only the inner contradictions of the developing Revolution, but also the prejudices inherent in the backwardness of the peasant masses, and the sentimentalism, instability and career-chasing of the intellectual strata. It was perfectly clear that in that form the party could not last long.

Leon Davidovich Trotzky - From October to Brest-Litovsk