Stalin: We must march forward in such a way that the working class of the whole world, looking at us, may say: There you have my advanced detachment, my shock brigade, my working-class state power, my fatherland; they are engaged on their cause, our cause, and they are working well; let us support them against the capitalists and promote the cause of the world revolution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ho Chi Minh: With regard to the Vietnamese revolution and Vietnamese people, Leninism is not only a valuable ‘vade-mecum’ and a compass, but it is also the sun which lightens the road for us to go to final victory, to socialism and communism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Haile Selassie I: Discipline gives total freedom; it allows you to go beyond your limitations and to reach the ultimate goal. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: But capital not only lives upon labor. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses of its slaves, whole hecatombs of workers, who perish in the crises. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fred Hampton: Not theory and theory alone, but theory and practice. The two go together. We not only thought about the Marxist-Leninist theory—we put it into practice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: The masses are the teachers of everything and the creators of everything. A leader only acquires wisdom, leadership, and virtue by going among the masses. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: Unlike in capitalist society where every realm of social life is based on individualism, a socialist society is a collective society where all the people work together sharing a common goal and common interests. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: If I lose, it will not mean that it was impossible to win. Many were defeated trying to reach the top of Everest, and in the end Everest was defeated. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Z. Foster: (W)e face a tremendous educational problem in the sense that we have to help the masses of the American people understand that the United States has embarked on an imperialist policy aimed at domination of the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The proletarian revolution calls for a prolonged education of the workers in the spirit of the fullest equality and brotherhood. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Meridel Leseur: The artist must become voice, messenger, organizer, awakener, sparking the inflammable silence, reflection back to the courage and the beauty. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Z. Foster: So long as capitalism lasts war must continue to curse the human race. It is the historical task of the proletariat to put an end to this hoary monster. This it will do by destroying the capitalist system and with it the economic causes that bring about war. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: What should our policy be towards non-Marxist ideas? As far as unmistakable counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs of the socialist cause are concerned, the matter is easy, we simply deprive them of their freedom of speech. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Emil Ruthenberg: The role of the party is to be the battalion at the front leading the working class hosts forward against the enemy in spite of all persecutions, in spite of the efforts of the capitalists to destroy it, until the victory of the workers is won. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Howard Taft: US foreign policy may well be made to include active intervention to secure for our merchandise and our capitalists opportunity for profitable investment. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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/…
