Trotsky told us the "secret" in 1936
"... The revolution gave a mighty historical impulse to the new Soviet generation. It cut them free at one blow from conservative forms of life, and exposed to them the great secret - the first secret of the dialectic - that there is nothing unchanging on this earth, and that society is made out of plastic materials. ... "
{p. 159} The Revolution Betrayed, by Leon Trotsky http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1936- written 1936 first published 1937 Translated by Max Eastman (from Peter Myer's elist)rev/index.htm
