Ted Grant: Not a wheel turns, not a lightbulb shines and not a telephone rings without the kind permission of the working class. But under capitalism, the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class: they own the machinery, the plants and the factories. The workers have no claim either to the instruments or the products of their labour, and they have no choice but to work in order to survive. This entire process is not planned according to social need, but operates anarchically to maximise profit for the capitalists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Always be on the alert against trotskyism, reformism and revisionism / Soyez toujours en alerte contre le trotskysme, le réformisme et le révisionnisme / Seid immer wachsam gegen Trotzkismus, Reformismus und Revisionismus
William Lloyd Garrison: With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George L. Jackson: The U.S. is the Korean problem, the Vietnamese problem, the problem in the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, the Middle East. It's the grease in the British and Latin Amerikan guns that operate against the masses of common people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Baruch Spinoza: Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bible: I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bertrand Russell: Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Antonio Machado: in Spain the best is the people. In the hard trances, the ladies invoke the homeland and sell it. The people don't even name her, but she buys her blood and save it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lord Acton: Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Orwell: So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult… All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontentment led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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George Orwell: People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Hugh Culliton: Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a finite system. In biology such behavior of cells is call "cancer". wordsmith.social/protestation/…
León Gieco: I only ask of God that the pain is not indifferent to me, that the dried death does not encounter me empty and alone without having done enough. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
