Fidel Castro: I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Dora Montefiore: What is known as “overproduction” in capitalist countries is only the result of the workers producing more than they can buy out of their weekly wages, or than their employers can sell at a profit abroad. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jimmy Carter: Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in our fear. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fr. Irby C. Nichols: The first actual use of the term cordon sanitaire was in 1821, when the Duke de Richelieu deployed 30,000 French troops to the border between France and Spain in the Pyrenees Mountains, allegedly in order to prevent yellow fever from spreading from Barcelona into France(3) but in fact mainly to prevent the spread of liberal ideas from constitutional Spain. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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/…
