Halford Mackinder: Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; Who rules the World Island commands the World. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Naomi Klein: The recent spate of disasters has translated into such spectacular profits that many people around the world have come to the same conclusion: the rich and powerful must be deliberately causing the catastrophes so that they can exploit them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Capitalism means unequal terms of trade with the peoples of the Third World, the exacerbation of individual selfishness and national chauvinism, the reign of irrationality and chaos in investment and production, the ruthless sacrifice of the peoples on behalf of blind economic laws, the survival of the fittest, the exploitation human by human, a situation of everybody for themself. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Winston Churchill: I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China—I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paulo Freire: “Washing one’s hands” of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
R. Palme Dutt: The reality of Fascism is the violent attempt of decaying capitalism to defeat the proletarian revolution and forcibly arrest the growing contradictions of its whole development. All the rest is decoration and stage-play, whether conscious or unconscious, to cover and make presentable or attractive this basic reactionary aim, which cannot be openly stated without defeating its purpose. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tommy Douglas: Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eugene V. Debs: Socialism to us is something more than a mere conviction. It courses in our veins; it throbs in our hearts; it fires and sanctifies our souls; and it consecrates us to the service of humanity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: In words bourgeois democracy promises equality and freedom, but in practice not a single bourgeois republic, even the more advanced, has granted women (half the human race) and men complete equality in the eyes of the law, or delivered women from dependence on and the oppression of the male. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bertolt Brecht: Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Before we can unite, and in order that we may unite, we must first of all draw firm and definite lines of demarcation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The capitalists have always use the term "freedom" to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. And capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Antony Sutton: If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied. The issuing power of money should be taken from the banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe the banking institutions are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Antony Sutton: There has been a continuing, albeit concealed, alliance between international political capitalists and international revolutionary socialists—to their mutual benefit. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Antony Sutton: While monopoly control of industries was once the objective of J. P. Morgan and J. D. Rockefeller, by the late nineteenth century the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood that the most efficient way to gain an unchallenged monopoly was to make society go to work for the monopolists—under the name of the public good and the public interest. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Frederick C. Howe: These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kimberly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Antony Sutton: Revolution and international finance are not at all inconsistent if the result of revolution is to establish more centralized authority. International finance prefers to deal with central governments. The last thing the banking community wants is laissez-faire economy and decentralized power because these would disperse power. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nelson Mandela: It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Samora Machel: Marxism, the science of revolution, is the fruit of practice, of humanity's struggle for a better future. The spectre that haunted the bourgeoisie in Europe a hundred years ago still haunts them, but now it is perceptible throughout the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kemal Okuyan: Facing the capitalist class, which is afraid of an upheaval, we can only move forward and by no means backward. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Liu Shaoqi: The science of Marxism-Leninism is of little to no use to anyone who is not a genuine revolutionary, who is not a proletarian revolutionary to the core, who does not want to bring about socialism and communism throughout the world and emancipate all (humanity) to anyone who does not want revolution or is unwilling to carry it through to the end and wants to stop halfway. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Xi Jinping: A nation that has abandoned or betrayed its own history and culture is not only unlikely to develop, but it is also likely to stage a series of historical tragedies, and it is necessary to take a clear stand against historical nihilism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
