Plato: The rulers then of the city may, if anybody, fitly lie on account of enemies or citizens for the benefit of the state; no others may have anything to do with it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: In the sea of people we are after all but a drop in the ocean, and we can administer only when we express correctly what the people are conscious of. Unless we do this the Communist Party will not lead the proletariat, the proletariat will not lead the masses, and the whole machine will collapse. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kang Sheng: We must carry out severe suppression of counterrevolutionaries, this is the greatest form of democracy... We must carry out dictatorship over counterrevolutionary elements... Only revolutionaries have freedom of speech. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Soviet socialist democracy is not in the least incompatible with individual rule and dictatorship. The will of a class may sometimes be carried out by a dictator who can sometimes do more all by himself and who is frequently more essential. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Casey: We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: For the workers' and peasants' government, freedom of the press means liberation of the press from capitalist oppression, and public ownership of paper mills and printing presses; equal right for public groups of a certain size (say, numbering 10, 000) to a fair share of newsprint stocks and a corresponding quantity of printers' labour. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bruce Lee: Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Don Lorenzo Milani: I learned that other people’s problems match my own. Overcoming them together is politics. Overcoming them on your own is avarice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Napoleon Bonaparte: Well analyzed, political freedom is a fable imagined by Governments to numb to their constituencies. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: In all capitalist countries throughout the world, the bourgeoisie resorts to two methods in its struggle against the working-class movement and the workers’ parties. One method is that of violence, persecution, bans, and suppression. In its fundamentals, this is a feudal, medieval method. Everywhere there are sections and groups of the bourgeoisie—smaller in the advanced countries and larger in the backward ones—which prefer these methods, and in certain, highly critical moments in the workers’ struggle against wage-slavery, the 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 bourgeoisie is agreed on the employment of such methods. Historical examples of such moments are provided by Chartism in England, and 1849 and 1871 in France. The other method the bourgeoisie employs against the movement is that of dividing the workers, disrupting their ranks, bribing individual representatives or certain groups of the proletariat with the object of winning them over to its side. These are not feudal but 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮 bourgeois and modern methods, in keeping with the developed and civilised customs of capitalism, with the democratic system. For the democratic system is a feature of bourgeois society, the most pure and perfect bourgeois feature, in which the utmost freedom, scope and clarity of the class struggle are combined with the utmost cunning, with ruses and subterfuges aimed at spreading the “ideological” influence of the bourgeoisie among the wage-slaves with the object of diverting them from their struggle against wage-slavery. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kwame Nkrumah: We are not fighting against a race and colour and creed. We are fighting against a system, a system which degrades and exploits, and wherever we find the system, that system must be abolished … we abhor man’s inhumanity against man. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The history of modern, civilized America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars... That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery, in the same way as these “civilized” bloodsuckers are still oppressing and holding in colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt, and all parts of the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: You are making the socialist revolution, and yet you don’t know where the bourgeoisie is. It is right inside the Communist Party - those in power taking the capitalist road. The capitalist roaders are still on the capitalist road. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: The dictatorship of the proletariat is needed for the purpose of waging a relentless struggle against the capitalist elements, for the purpose of suppressing the bourgeoisie and of uprooting capitalism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ghassan Kanafani: Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Muammar Gaddafi: The terrorists who hit New York were not Afghani. They did not use airplanes or take off from Iraq or Afghanistan. They flew from JFK airport, here. The whole action was done in America. They were trained in America. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Life has been very busy lately. I have been diagnosed with Breast Cancer and had a lump removed & a lot of appointments. I dressing changes 3 times a week. I am having CBT counselling. There is the decluttering. And that is on top of my caring duties, trying to cope with my osteoarthritis, etc & trying to sort out a motorbility car.
