Thomas Sankara: As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say we are tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We know that when the people understand, they cannot help but follow us. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Pavan Kulkarni: The capitalists want to hide from us the fact that their system is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. They want to hide from us that the workers are not just individuals but a class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Pavan Kulkarni: Our struggles, our reality, our dreams are erased by the capitalist media. They decide for us what stories will be told and how. Every day of existence of the capitalist media is a war on the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harry Haywood: The 'leftist' form of opportunism, ultra-leftism, covers itself with super-revolutionary rhetoric and phrase mongering, but inevitably leads to isolation from and disdain for the working class and its ability to make revolution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Julius Sello Malema: What is democracy to you might not be democracy to me. Don't impose your definition of democracy on us... Unlike capitalism, which is producing for the benefits of the boss and profit, socialism produces for all. There will never be a better democracy than a democracy that produces for human development. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: The people are the masters of the revolution in each country. It is like putting a cart before the horse that foreigners carry out the revolution for them. The revolution can neither be exported nor imported. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The dictatorship of the proletariat means that the state uses its whole machinery of power to uphold and perpetuate “no-liberty” for the exploiters to continue their oppression and exploitation, “inequality” between the owner of property (i.e., one who has appropriated for himself certain means of production created by social labour) and the non-owner. That which, prior to the victory of the proletariat, seems merely a theoretical difference on the question of “democracy” inevitably becomes, on the day following victory, a question that is settled by force of arms. Consequently, even preliminary work in preparing the masses to effect the dictatorship of the proletariat is impossible without a radical change in the entire character of the struggle against the “Centrists” and the “champions of democracy “. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The dictatorship of the proletariat is the most determined and revolutionary form of the proletariat’s class struggle against the bourgeoisie. This struggle can be successful only when the most revolutionary vanguard of the proletariat has the backing of the overwhelming majority of the proletariat. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John A. Hobson: Corporations are in a sense moral monsters; we say they behave as such and we are disposed to treat them as such. The standard of international morality, particularly in matters of commercial intercourse, is on a still lower level. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John A. Hobson: The richly nourished patriotism of war breeds divisions and antagonisms which are easily exploited afterwards by political, racial, religious, and cultural passions, but most of all by economic interests. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: It would be incorrect, of course, to underestimate the importance of our difficulties. But it would be even more incorrect to overestimate their importance, to lose our balance and succumb to panic. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Boots Riley: Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
