Who are capitalists explain briefly ? People who make a living by exploiting the productive energy of workers. People who make money without working while calling everyone else lazy. People who rob the general public in order to feed their sick hoarding instincts. (anonymous) https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7681
Lenin: I said again in my speech that politics is a concentrated expression of economics, because I had earlier heard my “political” approach rebuked in a manner which is inconsistent and inadmissible for a Marxist. Politics must take precedence over economics. To argue otherwise is to forget the ABC of Marxism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7682
Otto Kuusinen: Never in the history of class society has the ruling class believed in the inevitable doom of its system. The slave-owners felt sure their system would last for ever, for had it not been established by divine will? The feudal lords who superseded them likewise believed their system had been established by divine will and for all time. But they were forced to give way to the bourgeoisie, and then it was its turn to seek comfort in the illusion that capitalism was "eternal" and "unassailable." And many learned sociologists and historians, reluctant to break with capitalism, try in every possible way to refute the fact that the development and change of social systems follow intrinsic laws that do not depend on the will of the ruling classes and their ideologists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7683
Nelson Mandela: Dialectical materialism seemed to offer both a searchlight illuminating the dark night of racial oppression and a tool that could be used to end it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7686
Adam McKay: Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7687
Lenin: We have only one maxim, one slogan: All who work have the right to enjoy the benefits of life. Idlers and parasites who suck the blood of the working people must be deprived of these benefits. And we proclaim: Everything for the workers, everything for the working people! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7690
Lenin: Utopia is a Greek word, composed of ou, not, and topos, a place. It means a place which does not exist, a fantasy, invention or fairy-tale. In politics utopia is a wish that can never come true—neither now nor afterwards, a wish that is not based on social forces and is not supported by the growth and development of political, class forces. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7691
Michael Parenti: But if history teaches us anything it is that the power of the propertied class never stands alone. It wraps itself in the flag and claims a devotion to God, country, and the public good. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7693
Lenin: Everything, not merely the land, but human labour, the human being himself, conscience, love, science—everything must inevitably be for sale as long as the power of capital lasts. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7695
James Connolly: Legislation does not control the Lords of Industry; it is the Lords of Industry who control legislation. As we have often put it: The Class which rules industrially will rule politically. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7697
Charles Chaplin: The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7699
James Gilligan: Violent criminals are not violent because they are dumb, out of touch with reality, or unable to recognize hypocrisy, dishonesty, and injustice when they see it. They are violent precisely because they are aware of the hypocrisy, dishonesty, and injustice that surrounds them and of which they have been the victims. That does not mean that they respond to those conditions in a rational or just way, or that we should tolerate and permit their violence — which affects their fellow victims much more often than it does their oppressors. But it does mean that we cannot expect to stop the kind of violence that we call crime until we stop the kind of violence that I have called structural in "Structural Violence" (1999). By this I mean the deaths and disabilities that are caused by the economic structure of our society, its division into rich and poor. Structural violence is not only the main form of violence, in the sense that poverty kills far more people (almost all of them very poor) than all the behavioral violence put together, it is also the main cause of violent behavior. Eliminating structural violence means eliminating relative poverty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7701
Winona LaDuke: Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7702
Gus Hall: To recite the words of Lenin in the abstract, without consideration of time and specific objective surroundings, to recite words without considering historical context is not to defend the science of Marxism-Leninism, but to destroy it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7706
Lenin: In brief, dialectics can be defined as the doctrine of the unity of opposites. This embodies the essence of dialectics, but it requires explanations and development. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7708
Carl von Clausewitz: War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7709
Milton Friedman: Let us suppose now that one day a helicopter flies over this community and drops an additional $1,000 in bills from the sky, which is, of course, hastily collected by members of the community. Let us suppose further that everyone is convinced that this is a unique event which will never be repeated. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7710
Mao Zedong: There are people who think that Marxism is a kind of magic truth with which one can cure any disease. We should tell them that dogmas are more useless than cow dung. Dung can be used as fertilizer. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7711
Võ Nguyên Giáp: The War of Liberation of the Vietnamese people proves that, in the face of an enemy as powerful as he is cruel, victory is possible only by uniting the whole people within the bosom of a firm and wide national united front based on the worker -peasant alliance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote7712
