Roger A. Freeman: We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. … That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow (to go to college). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: But they also see that the development of the proletariat in nearly all civilized countries has been violently suppressed, and that in this way the opponents of communism have been working toward a revolution with all their strength. If the oppressed proletariat is finally driven to revolution, then we communists will defend the interests of the proletarians with deeds as we now defend them with words. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Howard Zinn: The CIA in Vietnam, in a program called "Operation Phoenix," secretly, without trial, executed at least twenty thousand civilians in South Vietnam who were suspected of being members of the Communist underground. A pro-administration analyst wrote in the journal Foreign Affairs in January 1975: "Although the Phoenix program did undoubtedly kill or incarcerate many innocent civilians, it did also eliminate many members of the Communist infrastructure." wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ho Chi Minh: Lenin was the first to realize and assess the full importance of drawing the colonial peoples into the revolutionary movement. He was the first to realize that without the participation of the colonial peoples, the socialist revolution could not come about. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Class-conscious workers stand for full unity among the workers of all nations in every educational, trade union, political, etc., workers’ organisation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Moissaye J. Olgin: Trotsky as an individual is only a representative of a certain social class. He is a petty-bourgeois intellectual. He started with opposition to the Revolution and the Communist Party, and he has finished with heading the counter-revolution. He hates discipline when applied to himself. But he loves discipline when he applies it to others. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lorca: I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eugene V. Debs: Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Antonio Negri: Empire is emerging today as the center that supports the globalization of productive networks and casts its widely inclusive net to try to envelop all power relations within its world order - and yet at the same time it deploys a powerful police function against the new barbarians and the rebellious slaves who threaten its order. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Antonio Negri: The multitude is the real productive force of our social world, whereas Empire is a mere apparatus of capture that lives only off the vitality of the multitude - as Marx would say, a vampire regime of accumulated dead labor that survives only by sucking off the blood of the living. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Antonio Negri: If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Noam Chomsky: We should not underestimate the capacity of well-run propaganda systems to drive people to irrational, murderous, and suicidal behavior. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Orwell: All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Terence McKenna: Stay the fuck away from that tabloid bullshit, reality tv, the news channels feeding you fear and hatred, lulling your unique human consciousness into a materialistic slumber only useful for selfish gain and the aggrandization of the ego which is ultimately an illusion and which will never be satisfied no matter what you buy. This gratification is and will always be transcient, so don’t buy shit you don’t need, don’t hate people you don’t know, and most importantly, don’t spend your precious time on Earth consuming garbage styled as entertainment. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Pak Kil Song: Communism! This is just the youth of the world. It is a cradle bringing up the bright future of the country. We know this too clearly and so, die smiling like this. We know and love the future! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Salvador Allende: There are some men who do not die. Stalin is among them. Stalin was an example of creativity, humanism and an edifying example of peace and heroism! ... Everything he did, he did to serve the people. Our father Stalin is dead, but in remembering his example, our affection for him will make our arms grow strong towards building a great tomorrow, to secure a future in memory of his great example! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Bernard Shaw: I am going to ask you to begin our study of Democracy by considering it first as a big balloon, filled with gas or hot air, and sent up so that you shall be kept looking up at the sky whilst other people are picking your pockets. When the balloon comes down to earth every five years or so you are invited to get into the basket if you can throw out one of the people who are sitting tightly in it; but as you can afford neither the time nor the money, and there are forty millions of you and hardly room for six hundred in the basket, the balloon goes up again with much the same lot in it and leaves you where you were before. I think you will admit that the balloon as an image of Democracy corresponds to the parliamentary facts. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Arthur Schopenhauer: What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Michael Parenti: Sleeping in a doorway is oppression. Want to know what oppression is? Then sleep in the doorways of the land of the free and the home of the brave and you’ll know what oppression is. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gustave Le Bon: The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nicola Bombacci: Overcome the Nation without destroying it, we want it bigger, because we want a government of workers and farmers, socialist, without denying the Homeland, an incontestable and sacred right of every man and every group of men. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn't even know where north or south is. If you don't eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you're lost in a forest, not knowing anything. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
