Lenin: They (Social-Democrats) are just as much traitors to socialism... They represent that top section of workers who have been bribed by the bourgeoisie... for in all the civilised, advanced countries the bourgeoisie rob-either by colonial oppression or by financially extracting 'gain' from formally independent weak countries-they rob a population many times larger than that of 'their own' country. This is the economic factor that enables the imperialist bourgeoisie to obtain superprofits, part of which is used to bribe the top section of the proletariat and convert it into a reformist, opportunist petty bourgeoisie that fears revolution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gustave Le Bon: Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The guns should be directed, not against our brothers, the wage slaves of other countries, but against the reactionary and bourgeois governments and parties of all countries. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: The Juche idea means that the masses of the people are the masters of the revolution and the building people, and that they muster the motive power of the revolution and construction. In other words, the individual bears responsibility for his own destiny. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely (the) relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure, and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political, and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or - this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms - with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces, these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead, sooner or later, to the transformation of the whole, immense, superstructure. In studying such transformations, it is always necessary to distinguish between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, artistic, or philosophic - in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. Just as one does not judge an individual by what he thinks about himself, so one cannot judge such a period of transformation by its consciousness, but, on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the conflict existing between the social forces of production and the relations of production. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Prince: Upload: a two party system, the lesser of two dangers, illusion of choice. Download: a veiled form of fascism, nothing really ever changes, you never had a voice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but their chains will be tightened and their condition made more miserable than ever. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Malcolm X: The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: We are Marxists, and Marxism teaches that in our approach to a problem we should start from objective facts, not from abstract definitions, and that we should derive our guiding principles, policies, and measures from an analysis of these facts. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Wang Hongwen: A true Communist must act without any selfish considerations and dare to go against the tide, fearing neither removal from his post, expulsion from the Party, imprisonment, divorce nor guillotine. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Larry Sanger: We do have evidence that, as early as 2008, CIA and FBI computers were used to edit Wikipedia. Do you think that they stopped doing that? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Oswalt Burghart: We do not fear the open enemies, but rather the ones who with a friendly word on their lips come to us in order to tear our soul to pieces, to sow the seed of dissension in our hearts. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The dialectics of history were such that the theoretical victory of Marxism compelled its enemies to disguise themselves as Marxists. Liberalism, rotten within, tried to revive itself in the form of socialist opportunism. They interpreted the period of preparing the forces for great battles as renunciation of these battles. Improvement of the conditions of the slaves to fight against wage slavery they took to mean the sale by the slaves of their right to liberty for a few pence. They cravenly preached "social peace" (i.e., peace with the slave-owners), renunciation of the class struggle, etc. They had very many adherents among socialist members of parliament, various officials of the working-class movement, and the "sympathising" intelligentsia. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
