Lenin: And for a whole half-century—since the Civil War over slavery in 1860–65—two bourgeois parties have been distinguished there by remarkable solidity and strength. The party of the former slave-owners is the so-called Democratic Party. The capitalist party, which favoured the emancipation of the Negroes, has developed into the Republican Party. Since the emancipation of the Negroes, the distinction between the two parties has been diminishing. The fight between these two parties has been mainly over the height of customs duties. Their fight has not had any serious importance for the mass of the people. The people have been deceived and diverted from their vital interests by means of spectacular and meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7733
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh: I would very much like to go to Russia - although the bastards murdered half my family. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7734
Eugene V. Debs: I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of Social Revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7735
Robespierre: The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7736
Yuri Gagarin: Looking at Earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for cooperation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7737
Lenin: The rule of the proletariat is expressed in the fact that landowner and capitalist property has been taken away. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7738
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Kim Il Sung: It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7739
Lenin: The people need peace; the people need bread; the people need land. And they give you war, hunger, no bread—leave the landlords still on the land. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7740
Lenin: But when they face the workers, our liquidators act according to the saying: A lion among the lambs becomes a lamb among the lions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7741
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Labour movement is the principal force that transformed misery and dispair into hope and progress. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7742
Stalin: Your cause is just, Victory will be yours, death to fascist invaders! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7743
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Muammar Gaddafi: They want to do to Libya what they did to Iraq and what they are itching to do to Iran. They want to take back the oil, which was nationalized by these country’s revolutions. They want to re-establish military bases that were shut down by the revolutions and to install client regimes that will subordinate the country’s wealth and labor to imperialist corporate interests. All else is lies and deception. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7744
Stalin: Some people believe that Marxism and anarchism are based on the same principles and that the disagreements between them concern only tactics, so that, in the opinion of these people, no distinction whatsoever can be drawn between these two trends. This is a great mistake. We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism. Accordingly, we also hold that a real struggle must be waged against real enemies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7745
Stalin: A true revolutionary is not that demonstrates value in the period of the victorious uprising, but who knows how to fight not only at the time of the victorious advance but also at the retreat of the revolution; that demonstrates value in the period of the defeat of the proletariat, which does not lose the head, which does not abandon the road when the revolution suffers a defeat and the enemy records successes; which is not dominated by panic, or falls into despair in the retreat of the revolution period. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7746
Stalin: You speak of Sinified socialism. There is nothing of the sort in nature. There is no Russian, English, French, German, Italian socialism, as much as there is no Chinese socialism. There is only one Marxist-Leninist socialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7747
Thomas Sankara: Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail. We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7748
Lenin: We believe that historical events should be judged by the movements of the masses and of classes as a whole, not by the moods of individuals or small groups. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7749
Mao Zedong: The ideological and social system of capitalism...resembles "a dying person who is sinking fast, like the sun setting beyond the western hills", and will soon be relegated to the museum. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7750
Bible: Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7751
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Otto von Bismarck: The power of Russia can only be undermined by the separation of Ukraine from it ... it is necessary not only to tear off, but also to oppose Ukraine to Russia. To do this, you only need to find and nurture traitors among the elite and, with their help, change the self-awareness of one part of the great people to such an extent that they will hate everything Russian, hate their kind, without realizing it. Everything else is a matter of time. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7752
Stalin: The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal, everything else is ephemeral. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7753
Bhagat Singh: We want a socialist revolution, the indispensable preliminary to which is the political revolution. That is what we want. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7754
Lenin: War is a continuation of policy by other means. All wars are inseparable from the political systems that engender them. The policy which a given state, a given class within that state, pursued for a long time before the war is inevitably continued by that same class during the war, the form of action alone being changed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7755
Bhagat Singh: The struggle in India would continue so long as a handful of exploiters go on exploiting the labour of the common people for their own ends. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7756
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John Locke: Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7757
Lenin: But Marxists know that democracy does not abolish class oppression. It only makes the class struggle more direct, wider, more open and pronounced, and that is what we need. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7758
Lenin: Socialism cannot be decreed from above. Its spirit rejects the mechanical bureaucratic approach; living, creative socialism is the product of the masses themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7759
Xi Jinping: Marx is the teacher of revolution for the proletariat and working people all over the world, as well as the main founder of Marxism, creator of Marxist parties, pathfinder for international communism and the greatest thinker of modern times. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7760
Lenin: The essential nature of international relations under capitalism—the open robbery of the weaker—is fully and clearly exposed by war. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7761
Lenin: The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7762
Kim Jong-il: A decadent material life, a poor mental and cultural life and a reactionary political life-these can be said to be the main characteristics of capitalist society, and they show the anti-popular nature and corruption of modern imperialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7763
Joe Biden: The only thing that can provoke a hostile and energetic response from Russia is NATO expansion into the Baltic states. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7764
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Shiri Bailem
Unknown parent • •@milquetoast :milquetoast: This!
But in this case we were debating on exact definitions of appeal to authority, and it devolved a little because I gave the example "Are you a doctor? Because Dr. Phil says..." and they called it Ad Hominem...
We settled on it depends on the context of said statement, but it's ultimately appeal to authority in both cases, just in some contexts it's also ad hominem