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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paulo Freire: There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Marcus Aurelius: The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gus Hall: The ideological machinery of capitalism grinds out propaganda against labor in an endless stream, like a sausage machine turns out frankfurters. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Without the victory of the revolutionary proletariat, there would be no peace for the people, land for the peasants, nor bread for the workers and all working people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John Maynard Keynes: Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gudrun Ensslin: This fascist state intends to kill all of us. We must organize resistance. Violence can only be answered with violence. This is the generation of Auschwitz (referring to the West German government and society), you cannot argue with them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gudrun Ensslin: You have to make clear that it's social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gudrun Ensslin: Without simultaneously building the Red Army, every conflict, all political work in the factories, in the Wedding and Märkische Viertel districts,** in the Plötze,*** and in the courtroom will degenerate into nothing more than reformism, which means you merely push through better means of discipline, better methods of intimidation, better methods of exploitation. All that does is break the people down. It does not break down what breaks the people down! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eduardo Galeano: For us capitalism is not a dream to be made a reality. Our challenge lies not in privatising the state but in deprivatising it. Our states have been bought at bargain prices by the owners of the land, the banks and everything else. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Without the sacrifices made by the Soviet people, fascism would have been imposed on the whole world for at least a brief period of time. Everybody would have personally learned of the horrors of fascism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: This so-called bipartisan system prevailing in America and Britain has been one of the most powerful means of preventing the rise of an independent working-class, i.e., genuinely socialist, party. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh: I would very much like to go to Russia - although the bastards murdered half my family. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Robespierre: The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The rule of the proletariat is expressed in the fact that landowner and capitalist property has been taken away. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
