Lenin: The leaders of this labour aristocracy were constantly going over to the bourgeoisie, and were directly or indirectly on its pay roll. Marx earned the honour of incurring the hatred of these disreputable persons by openly branding them as traitors. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality (will) have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The workers say: We, millions of working people, have bent our backs long enough! We have worked for the rich and remained paupers long enough! We have allowed them to rob us long enough! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Opportunism does not extend recognition of the class struggle to the cardinal point, to the period of transition from capitalism to communism, of the overthrow and the complete abolition of the bourgeoisie. In reality, this period inevitably is a period of an unprecedently violent class struggle in unprecedentedly acute forms, and, consequently, during this period the state must inevitably be a state that is democratic in a new way (for the proletariat and the propertyless in general) and dictatorial in a new way (against the bourgeoisie). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
W. E. B. Du Bois: Today more than half the people of the world live under a socialism which is growing toward communism. In my mind there is no doubt but that the world of the 21st century will be overwhelmingly communistic. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: And notwithstanding all the differences in the aims and tasks of the Russian revolution, compared with the French revolution of 1871, the Russian proletariat had to resort to the same method of struggle as that first used by the Paris Commune—civil war. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin: You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin: The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Affairs in Russia are not moving in the direction where the great argument about the destiny of the people—the question of land and freedom—can be settled by speeches and voting. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Many think that imperialist pacifism is an instrument of peace. That is absolutely wrong. Imperialist pacifism is an instrument for the preparation of war and for disguising this preparation by hypocritical talk of peace. Without this pacifism and its instrument, the League of Nations, preparation for war in the conditions of today would be impossible. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class -- consequently, it is capitalism's main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Firstly, to wage an unceasing struggle against Social-Democratism in all spheres -- in the economic and in the political sphere, including in the latter the exposure of bourgeois pacifism with the task of winning the majority of the working class for communism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Things have turned out differently from what Marx and Engels expected and we, the Russian working and exploited classes, have the honour of being the vanguard of the international socialist revolution; we can now see clearly how far the development of the revolution will go. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: The Communist Parties do not act blindly, groping in the dark, but are guided by the revolutionary theory of Marxism-Leninism which scientifically expresses the fundamental interests of the working class. The Party is a voluntary union of like-minded persons united for the purpose of applying the Marxist world outlook and carrying out the historic mission of the working class. The revolutionary character of the Party determines its organisational principles, its unity, its identity of action and the flexibility of its tactics. Moreover, the main strength of the Communist Parties lies in the fact that they are not parties of isolated individuals or narrow groups of professional revolutionaries, but of the broad masses of the working people, with whom they establish the closest possible contact and whose struggle they strive to lead. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: All reactionary classes in all historical epochs, when the antagonism between exploiters and exploited reaches its highest peak, presaging the arrival of a new social regime, have turned to the worst weapons of repression and calumny against their adversaries. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Connolly: We regard capitalist journalism as an effective weapon in the hands of a well informed but utter unscrupulous enemy, rather than merely an unbiased recorder of passing events. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Truth is a process. From the subjective idea, man advances towards objec- tive truth through “practice” (and technique). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Let's achieve even greater success in the education of the female proletarian masses in the spirit of the struggle for the complete triumph of socialism, in the spirit of fulfilling the great precepts of our teacher Lenin. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Connolly: We will not blame them for the crimes of their ancestors if they relinquish the royal rights of their ancestors; but as long as they claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, they must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: The tactics of participating in the elections weaken the revolutionary spirit of the people, for the advocates of participation call upon the people to take part in police-controlled elections and not to resort to revolutionary action; they see salvation in ballot papers and not in action by the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lula da Silva: I never thought that putting a plate of food on a poor man's table would generate so much hatred in an elite who throws tons of food in the trash everyday. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che's spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ho Chi Minh: Leninism is not only a miraculous ‘book of the wise’, a compass for us Vietnamese revolutionaries and people: it is also the radiant sun illuminating our path to final victory, to socialism and communism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
