Plato: The rulers then of the city may, if anybody, fitly lie on account of enemies or citizens for the benefit of the state; no others may have anything to do with it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: In the sea of people we are after all but a drop in the ocean, and we can administer only when we express correctly what the people are conscious of. Unless we do this the Communist Party will not lead the proletariat, the proletariat will not lead the masses, and the whole machine will collapse. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kang Sheng: We must carry out severe suppression of counterrevolutionaries, this is the greatest form of democracy... We must carry out dictatorship over counterrevolutionary elements... Only revolutionaries have freedom of speech. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Soviet socialist democracy is not in the least incompatible with individual rule and dictatorship. The will of a class may sometimes be carried out by a dictator who can sometimes do more all by himself and who is frequently more essential. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Casey: We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: For the workers' and peasants' government, freedom of the press means liberation of the press from capitalist oppression, and public ownership of paper mills and printing presses; equal right for public groups of a certain size (say, numbering 10, 000) to a fair share of newsprint stocks and a corresponding quantity of printers' labour. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bruce Lee: Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Don Lorenzo Milani: I learned that other people’s problems match my own. Overcoming them together is politics. Overcoming them on your own is avarice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Napoleon Bonaparte: Well analyzed, political freedom is a fable imagined by Governments to numb to their constituencies. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: In all capitalist countries throughout the world, the bourgeoisie resorts to two methods in its struggle against the working-class movement and the workers’ parties. One method is that of violence, persecution, bans, and suppression. In its fundamentals, this is a feudal, medieval method. Everywhere there are sections and groups of the bourgeoisie—smaller in the advanced countries and larger in the backward ones—which prefer these methods, and in certain, highly critical moments in the workers’ struggle against wage-slavery, the 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 bourgeoisie is agreed on the employment of such methods. Historical examples of such moments are provided by Chartism in England, and 1849 and 1871 in France. The other method the bourgeoisie employs against the movement is that of dividing the workers, disrupting their ranks, bribing individual representatives or certain groups of the proletariat with the object of winning them over to its side. These are not feudal but 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮 bourgeois and modern methods, in keeping with the developed and civilised customs of capitalism, with the democratic system. For the democratic system is a feature of bourgeois society, the most pure and perfect bourgeois feature, in which the utmost freedom, scope and clarity of the class struggle are combined with the utmost cunning, with ruses and subterfuges aimed at spreading the “ideological” influence of the bourgeoisie among the wage-slaves with the object of diverting them from their struggle against wage-slavery. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kwame Nkrumah: We are not fighting against a race and colour and creed. We are fighting against a system, a system which degrades and exploits, and wherever we find the system, that system must be abolished … we abhor man’s inhumanity against man. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The history of modern, civilized America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars... That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery, in the same way as these “civilized” bloodsuckers are still oppressing and holding in colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt, and all parts of the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
