Enver Hoxha: What is bourgeois democracy in reality? It is a form of the domination by the bourgeoisie, while the rights and freedoms, though proclaimed “for everybody”, have an utterly formal and deceptive character, because in the conditions of the existence of private property, the socio-economic means which would ensure the actual implementation of these rights and freedoms do not exist. This bourgeois democracy allows you to criticise this or that person in the papers, at meetings, or in parliament, you are allowed to criticise the party in office or the government in power, you can talk on and on, but you can change nothing, you must confine yourself to words only, because the capitalist economic and political power with its apparatus, is ready to hurl itself brutally upon anyone who opposes the ruling class, the financial oligarchy, in deeds. Recalling the severity of the French bourgeoisie in its onslaught against the workers, after the June 1848 uprising, F. Engels wrote: “It was the first time that the bourgeoisie showed to what insane cruelties of revenge it will be goaded the moment the proletariat dares to take its stand against the bourgeoisie as a separate class, with its own interests and demands”. Can we call the form of bourgeois power which relies on the principle that the majority must submit to the minority “democracy” ? Absolutely not. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery. For that reason reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible for the popular forces to expose this clearly. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Connolly: That labour movement of the future, as well as the socialist movement of today must, indeed, draw inspiration from the successes of our comrades abroad, but must also shape its course to suit the conditions within our own shores. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nikita S. Khrushchev: Our Party will mercilessly crush the band of traitors and betrayers, and wipe out all the Trotskyist-Right dregs.... The guarantee of this is the unshakable leadership of our Central Committee, the unshakable leadership of our leader Comrade Stalin....We shall totally annihilate the enemies — to the last man — and scatter their ashes to the winds. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Malcolm X: The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been divide-and-conquer. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Dictatorship is state power based directly on violence. And in the twentieth century—as in the age of civilisation generally—violence means neither a fist nor a club, but troops. To put “disarmament” in the programme is tantamount to making the general declaration: We are opposed to the use of arms. There is as little Marxism in this as there would be if we were to say: We are opposed to violence! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Benjamin Disraeli: The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: The great basic thought that the world is not to be comprehended as a complex of readymade things, but as a complex of processes, in which the things apparently stable no less than their mind images in our heads, the concepts, go through an uninterrupted change of coming into being and passing away, in which, in spite of all seeming accidentally and of all temporary retrogression, a progressive development asserts itself in the end — this great fundamental thought has, especially since the time of Hegel, so thoroughly permeated ordinary consciousness that in this generality it is now scarcely ever contradicted. But to acknowledge this fundamental thought in words and to apply it in reality in detail to each domain of investigation are two different things. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Laurie Halse Anderson: Censorship is the child of fear the father of ignorance and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Sankara: Prostitution is nothing but the microcosm of a society where exploitation is a general rule. It is a symbol of the contempt men have for women. (…) There can be prostitutes only as long as there are pimps and those who seek prostitutes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: A slave who has become conscious of his slavery and has risen to struggle for his emancipation has already half ceased to be a slave. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John Heywood: There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Vladimir Putin: Mankind has been manipulated to become “unconscious” through the use of programming by media and politics. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Maurice Bishop: That secret State Dept report made this point…the Grenadian Revolution is in one sense worse than the Cuban & Nicaraguan revolutions…because the people of Grenada & the leadership speaks English and therefore can directly communicate with the people of the USA. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Assata Shakur: I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: If I know that I know little, I shall strive to learn more; but if a man says that he is a Communist and that he need not know anything thoroughly, he will never become anything like a Communist. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Arthur Scargill: I say to the people of Britain, if you stand aside while miners are beaten to the ground by a paramilitary police force in riot gear - what they do to us today they’ll do to you tomorrow. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joseph Patrick Kennedy: Politics is like war. It takes three things to win. The first is money and the second is money and the third is money. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Giorgio Amendola: I wanted to fight Fascism. Especially after the death of my father, I'd had enough of words and nothing else. The Communists were the only ones who were actually fighting. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
