Lenin: We have made the start. When, at what date and time, and the proletarians of which nation will complete this process is not important. The important thing is that the ice has been broken; the road is open, the way has been shown. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: We should not underrate the enemy. Imperialism is still strong although its strength will dwindle steadily from one day to another. It still commands vast economic, military and scientific-technical resources, and-this should be particularly noted-has rich experience in resorting to lies, falsification and deception to confuse the masses. Besides, serving its interests are, of course, pseudo-revolutionaries and renegades who in fact act as splitters trying to hinder and paralyze the development of the revolutionary movement, although they often hypocritically use ultra-radical phraseology. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: All the social functions of the capitalist has no further social function than that of pocketing dividends, tearing off coupons, and gambling on the Stock Exchange, where the different capitalists despoil one another of their capital. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Sun Tzu: All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Michael Parenti: U.S. leaders have been dedicated above all to making the world safe for global corporate investment and the private profit system. Pursuant of this goal, they have used fascism to protect capitalism, while claiming to be saving democracy from communism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Michael Parenti: The overthrow of communism gave a green light to the unbridled exploitative impulses of Western corporate interests. No longer needing to convince workers that they live better than their counterparts in Russia, and no longer constrained by a competing system, the corporate class is rolling back the many gains that working people in the West have won over the years. Now that the free market, in its meanest form, is emerging triumphant in the East, so will it prevail in the West. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Michael Parenti: So it is the heart of us policy, ladies and gentlemen, to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour. By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Michael Parenti: Once you frighten the American public, once you demonize the leaders of these countries, then you have license to bomb their people and bomb their infrastructure and destroy their countries. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: We say nothing of the fact that bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and "radical" words. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eduardo Galeano: They came. They had the Bible and we had the land. And they said to us, "Close your eyes and pray". And when we opened our eyes, they had the earth and we had the Bible. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Rolf Hochhuth: When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Under capitalism there are no real "liberties" for the exploited, nor can there be, if for no reason than that the premises, printing plants, paper supplies, etc, indispensable for the enjoyment of "liberties" are the privilege of the exploiters. Under capitalism the exploited masses do not, nor can they ever, really participate in governing the country, if for no other reason than that, even under the most democratic regime, under conditions of capitalism, governments are not set up by the people but by the Rothschilds and Stinneses, the Rockefellers and Morgans. Democracy under capitalism is capitalist democracy, the democracy of the exploiting minority, based on the restriction of the rights of exploited majority and directed against this majority. Only under the proletarian dictatorship are real liberties for the exploited and real participation of the proletarians and peasants in governing the country possible. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, democracy is proletarian democracy, the democracy of the exploited majority, based on the restriction of the rights of the exploiting minority and directed against this minority. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Soviet power has been trying to make it possible for the working people to organise their lives without private property in land, without privately-owned factories, without that private property that everywhere, throughout the world, even where there is complete political liberty, even in the most democratic republics, keeps the working people in a state of what is actually poverty and wage-slavery, and women in a state of double slavery. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The blockade by the imperialist beasts is in full swing; the violence of the biggest world powers is turned against us in the hope of restoring the rule of the exploiters. And all this bestial fury of the Russian and world capitalists is cloaked, needless to say, in phrases about the lofty significance of "democracy"! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George L. Jackson: The U.S. has established itself as the mortal enemy of all peoples' government, all scientific-socialist mobilization of consciousness everywhere on the globe, all anti-imperialist activity on earth. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Arnold Joseph Toynbee: We are at present working discreetly, but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of the world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: It is not always necessary to wait for all conditions favorable to revolution to be present; the insurrection itself can create them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The people are weary of being oppressed, persecuted, exploited to the maximum. They are weary of the wretched selling of their labor-power day after day — faced with the fear of joining the enormous mass of unemployed — so that the greatest profit can be wrung from each human body, profit later squandered in the orgies of the masters of capital. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: I am emphatically opposed to the policy of kicking out all dissenting comrades. I am opposed to such a policy not because I am sorry for the dissenters, but because such a policy gives rise in the Party to a regime of intimidation, a regime of bullying, which kills the spirit of self-criticism and initiative. It is not good when leaders of the Party are feared but not respected. Party leaders can be real leaders only if they are not merely feared but respected in the Party, when their authority is recognised. It is difficult to produce such leaders, it is a long and arduous process, but it is absolutely essential, otherwise the Party cannot be called a real Bolshevik Party, and the discipline of the Party cannot be conscious discipline. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
