Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: No, workers cannot expect anything from god or the tsar. It is also a waste of time to expect the capitalists to change their minds and stop exploiting them, just as it would be to wait for wolves to stop eating sheep or for birds to give up catching insects. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Claudia Jones: We must spare no pains to see that the women workers and toilers fight shoulder to shoulder with their working class brothers in the ranks of the united working class front and the anti-fascist people's front. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Trotskyism possesses three specific features which bring it into irreconcilable contradiction with Leninism. What are these features? Firstly. Trotskyism is the theory of "permanent" (uninterrupted) revolution. But what is permanent revolution in its interpretation? It is revolution that fails to take the poor peasantry into account as a revolutionary force. Trotsky's "permanent" revolution is, as Lenin said, "skipping" the peasant movement, "playing at the seizure of power." Why is it dangerous? Because such a revolution, if an attempt had been made to bring it about, would inevitably have ended in failure, for it would have divorced from the Russian proletariat its ally, the poor peasantry. This explains the struggle that Leninism has been waging against Trotskyism ever since 1905. How does Trotsky appraise Leninism from the standpoint of this struggle? He regards it as a theory that possesses "anti-revolutionary features." What is this indignant opinion about Leninism based on? On the fact that, at the proper time, Leninism advocated and upheld the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry. But Trotsky does not confine himself to this indignant opinion. He goes further and asserts: "The entire edifice of Leninism at the present time is built on lies and falsification and bears within itself the poisonous elements of its own decay" (see Trotsky's letter to Chkheidze, 1913). As you see, we have before us two opposite lines. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves. This is how these profound thinkers mock at the whole world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Xi Jinping: Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall from power? An important reason was that the struggle in the field of ideology was extremely intense, completely negating the history of the Soviet Union, negating the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, negating Lenin, negating Stalin, creating historical nihilism and confused thinking. Party organs at all levels had lost their functions, the military was no longer under Party leadership. In the end, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a great party, was scattered, the Soviet Union, a great socialist country, disintegrated. This is a cautionary tale! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: Revolution, in history, is like the doctor assisting at the birth of a new life, who will not use forceps unless necessary, but who will use them unhesitatingly every time labor requires them. It’s a labor bringing the hope of a better life to the enslaved and exploited masses. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Margaret Thatcher: I'm also very much aware that it is you (Pinochet) who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles de Gaulle: NATO is an organization that weakens our defense capabilities, instills the idea that defense is inconceivable without it, thus numbing our sense of national independence. NATO is in fact a deception, a camouflage for the US takeover Europe. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Homer: Hateful (ekhthros) to me like the gates of Hades is the man who says one thing while he hides another thing in his mind (phrenes). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: The Dalai Lama, bestowed with the US Congress’ Gold Medal, praised George W. Bush for his efforts in defense of freedom, democracy and human rights. The Dalai Lama called the war in Afghanistan a war of 'liberation', the Korean War a war of 'semi-liberation' and the Vietnam War a 'failure'... I respect the Dalai Lama’s right to believe, but I am not obliged to believe in the Dalai Lama. I do have many reasons to believe in China’s victory. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lieutenant Elsa Oliva: I remember being called a Rebel for the first time by the Nazis during questioning. So I thought, That's a word a like, that's what I will always be — a rebel. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: Modern revisionism revises Marxism-Leninism and emasculates its revolutionary quintessence under the pretext of a 'changed situation' and 'creative development'. It rejects class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat. It preaches class collaboration and gives up fighting imperialism. Moreover, modern revisionism spread illusions about imperialism and in every way obstructed the revolutionary struggle of the peoples for social and national liberation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Yuri Gagarin: I am very happy and immensely thankful to our party and our government for entrusting me with this flight. I have completed this flight in the name of our Fatherland, in the name of the great Soviet people, and the communist party of the Soviet Union. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Where the working class is not yet far enough advanced in its organisation to undertake a decisive campaign against the collective power, i.e., the political power of the ruling classes, it must at any rate be trained for this by continual agitation against and a hostile attitude towards the policy of the ruling classes. Otherwise it will remain a plaything in their hands, as the September revolution in France showed, and as is also proved up to a certain point by the game Messrs. Gladstone & Co. are bringing off in England even up to the present time. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Julius Nyerere: Capitalism means that the masses will work, and a few people — who may not labor at all — will benefit from that work. The few will sit down to a banquet, and the masses will eat whatever is left over. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bernard Baruch: Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us. We can depend only on ourselves. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
