Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov: The October Revolution marked the beginning of the collapse of the capitalist system but for nearly three decades the Soviet Union was the sole Socialist country. After the Second world war there fell away from capitalism such European countries as Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Yugoslavia. In the dependent and colonial countries the movement for national liberation is making giant strides. In spite of all obstacles, the democratic forces are growing and becoming tempered in the struggle against the forces of reaction in the capitalist countries. The international prestige of the USSR is continuously growing as the main bulwark of the democratic and anti-imperialist camp opposed to the camp of imperialism and aggression. Under the great banner of Lenin and Stalin our people are marching forward, looking back with satisfaction on the past years of heroic struggle and glorious victories and full of confidence in their future. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ernst Thälmann: Social fascism (that is, Social Democracy)... is the weapon-bearer of the fascist dictatorship. It is very difficult to maintain the line of separation between the development of a social fascist dictatorship when it has reached the stage, as in Germany, of a Social Democratic government using the most reactionary weapons of violence, and the methods of fascist dictatorship. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today’s empire is tomorrow’s ashes; nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Enver Hoxha: No force, no torture, no intrigue, no deception can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Arnaud Amalric: Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. (Direct translation: Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own. Variant: Kill them all; let God sort them out). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ho Chi Minh: The American government talks about democracy, freedom, and human rights, but in reality, they are only interested in advancing their own interests and expanding their empire. They support dictatorships and corrupt regimes around the world, as long as they serve their purposes. They are not interested in the well-being of the people, only in their own profits and power. A superpower cannot, by definition, be more concerned with human rights around the world than with maintaining its power. It all comes down to how much restraint that superpower is willing to exercise. Imagine China in a similar position. The impact of European and Anglo-American imperialism is undeniable. Their legacy is one of destruction, exploitation, and violence. But instead of owning up to their crimes, they use projection to shift the blame onto others. Their obsession with the criminality of others is a dangerous game fueled by stereotypes and labels that give them permission to act accordingly. It's a twisted logic that allows them to justify their atrocities and treat others inhumanely. But let's not forget the lessons of history. A comparison between the White colonizer and Chinese or Asian counterparts reveals stark differences in their approach to colonialism. The White colonizer left a trail of destruction and exploitation, while Chinese or Asian counterparts pursued more equitable partnerships with the communities they encountered. We cannot undo the past, but we can learn from it. We can recognize the harm caused by imperialism and work towards a more just and equitable future. It's time to hold those responsible for their actions and ensure that justice is served for all who have suffered. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Salvador Allende: As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it, to overthrow it.… Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Erich Fromm: Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking—and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The bourgeois gentlemen and their hangers-on, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, who are wont to regard themselves as the representatives of "public opinion", naturally jeer at the hopes of the Communists, call those hopes "a baobab tree in a mignonette pot", sneer at the insignificance of the number of suhbotniks compared with the vast number of cases of thieving, idleness, lower productivity, spoilage of raw materials and finished goods, etc. Our reply to these gentlemen is that if the bourgeois intellectuals had dedicated their knowledge to assisting the working people instead of giving it to the Russian and foreign capitalists in order to restore their power, the revolution would have proceeded more rapidly and more peacefully. But this is utopian, for the issue is decided by the class struggle, and the majority of the intellectuals gravitate towards the bourgeoisie. Not with the assistance of the intellectuals will the proletariat achieve victory, but in spite of their opposition (at least in the majority of cases), removing those of them who are incorrigibly bourgeois, reforming, re-educating and subordinating the waverers, and gradually winning ever larger sections of them to its side. Gloating over the difficulties and setbacks of the revolution, sowing panic, preaching a return to the past-these are all weapons and methods of class struggle of the bourgeois intellectuals. The proletariat will not allow itself to be deceived by them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The bourgeois intellectuals, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, are true to themselves in serving capital and in continuing to use absolutely false arguments. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Enver Hoxha: In 1968 the students in Paris clashed with ‘the forces of law and order.’ (…) The French Communist Party did not participate. Why did it not participate? Was it that in principle it was opposed to anarchism? I think this is not the reason. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The opportunists are a section of the petty bourgeoisie and of a certain strata of the working class who have been bribed out of imperialist superprofits and converted to watchdogs of capitalism and corruptors of the labour movement. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: “I promise you anything you wish,” says the tsar, “only let me retain power, let me fulfil my own promises.” That is the gist of the tsar’s Manifesto, and it obviously had to spark off a determined struggle. “I grant you everything except power,” tsarism declares. “Everything is illusory except power,” the revolutionary people reply. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: We surely know from experience that the expropriation of the bourgeoisie entails a drastic struggle — a dictatorship. Marx said that the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat lies between capitalism and communism. The more the proletariat presses the bourgeoisie, the more thing for us is that! Cheka is directly exercising the dictatorship of the proletariat, and in that respect its services are invaluable. There is no way of emancipating the people except by forcibly suppressing the exploiters. That is what Cheka is doing, and therein lies its service to the proletariat. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: By exposing the fact that the opportunists and social-chauvinists are in reality betraying and selling the interests of the masses, that they are defending the temporary privileges of a minority of the workers, that they are the vehicles of bourgeois ideas and influences, that they are really allies and agents of the bourgeoisie, we teach the masses to appreciate their true political interests, to fight for socialism and for the revolution through all the long and painful vicissitudes of imperialist wars and imperialist armistices. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: The right of rebellion against tyranny, Honorable Judges, has been recognized from the most ancient times to the present day by men of all creeds, ideas, and doctrines. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: The Communist Party does not fear criticism because we are Marxists, the truth is on our side, and the basic masses, the workers and peasants, are on our side. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Georgi Dimitrov: Whoever does not fight the reactionary measures of the bourgeoisie and the growth of fascism at these preparatory stages is not in a position to prevent the victory of fascism, but, on the contrary, facilitates that victory. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
W. E. B. Du Bois: Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also - and this was the highest proof of his greatness - he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Z. Foster: Lenin and Stalin have evidenced their outstanding brilliance as mass leaders in every revolutionary requirement: in Marxian theory, political strategy, the building of mass organizations, and in the development of the mass struggle. The characteristic feature of their work is its many-sidedness. Both men of action as well as of thought, they have exemplified in their activities that coordination of theory and practice which is so indispensable to the success of the every-day struggles of the masses and the final establishment of socialism. Both have worked in the clearest realization of the twin truths that there can be no revolutionary movement without revolutionary theory, and that revolutionary theory unsupported by organized mass struggle must remain sterile. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bertolt Brecht: The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn't hear, doesn't speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn't know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn't know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
