George Carlin: Now, to balance the scale, I'd like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. 'Cause that's all you ever hear about in this country. It's our differences. That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about-the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That's the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different-that's what they're gonna talk about-race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jose Maria Sison: To die for the people is weightier than Mount Thai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Claudia Jones: We Communists adhere to the fundamental belief that complete and lasting equality of imperialist oppressed nations of peoples can be guaranteed only with the establishment of Socialism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Muammar Gaddafi: Capitalist companies produce viruses so that they can generate and sell vaccinations... If the vaccines were free, you'd see that many of these unknown viruses would stop appearing and spreading. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Silvia Federici: Racism and sexism are necessary conditions for the existence of the capitalist class. The capitalist class always needs a population without rights, in the colonies, in the kitchen, in the plantation, which is determinant for the process of value accumulation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kwame Ture: We must know clearly the difference between mobilization and organization. One of the characteristics of mobilization is that it is temporary. Organization is permanent and eternal... We must transform mobilization to organization. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Our country will have much more, but it will never be a consumer society, it will be a society of knowledge, culture, and of the most extraordinary conceivable human development; development of culture, art, science and not of chemical weapons. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has purchased of him. If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Albert Einstein: The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour...I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The theory that the struggle between Bolshevism and Menshevism is a struggle for influence over an immature proletariat is not a new one. We have been encountering it since 1905 in innumerable books, pamphlets, and articles in the liberal press. Martov and Trotsky are putting before the German comrades liberal views with a Marxist coating... wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ahmed Sékou Touré: When you are praised by the colonist, it means that you are bad for your people. When they say you are bad, it means that you are good for your people. The day they say I'm good, that'll mean I betrayed you. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations—such is the national program that Marxism (teaches) the workers. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gus Hall: It was necessary to define fascism as the open brutal dictatorship of the most reactionary sections of the top circles of monopoly capital... Only then was it possible to mobilize the broadest movement against fascism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Frank Zappa: I am the slime oozing out from your TV set. You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage while I feed you. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: We by no means intend to abolish this personal appropriation of the products of labour, an appropriation that is made for the maintenance and reproduction of human life, and that leaves no surplus wherewith to command the labour of others. All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Always be on the alert against Trotskyism, reformism and revisionism / Soyez toujours en alerte contre le trotskysme, le réformisme et le révisionnisme / Seid immer wachsam gegen Trotzkismus, Reformismus und Revisionismus
David Ricardo: LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
