Karl Marx: The bourgeoisie is too much enlightened, it keeps its accounts much too carefully, to share the prejudices of the feudal lord, who makes an ostentatious display of the magnificence of his retinue. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: The multiplications of individual capitals increases the competition among capitalists. The increasing magnitude of increasing capitals provides the means of leading more powerful armies of workers with more gigantic instruments of war upon the industrial battlefield. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Linda Tuhiwai Smith: The colonizer did not simply design an education system. They designed an education especially to destroy Indigenous cultures, value systems and appearance. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Moorad: When Jay Gould said, many years ago, that he could hire one half of the working class to kill the other half, he undoubtedly was boasting of the power of propaganda as opposed to mass thinking. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Xi Jinping: Theory, once divorced from practice, will become rigid dogma, losing its verve and vitality. Practice, without the guidance of correct theory, is like 'a blind man on a blind horse approaching a deep lake at midnight. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Georgi Dimitrov: Many comrades did not believe that so reactionary a brand of bourgeois ideology as the ideology of fascism, which in its stupidity frequently reaches the point of lunacy, would be able to gain any mass influence. This was a serious mistake. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: That today, when the wave has ebbed, there remain and will remain only real Marxists, does not frighten us but rejoices us. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harry Truman: If it explodes, as I think it will, I will certainly have a hammer on those boys (meaning to the Russians). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nelson Mandela: We also honour the great Che Guevara whose outstanding revolutionary efforts, even on our continent, were of such magnitude that no prison nor censorship could conceal him from us. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Maurice Cornforth: It is sometimes said that the essential feature of science is that it is based on observations. Of course, science is based on observations; but this is not its most essential feature. The basis of science is not mere observation, but experiment. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Georgi Dimitrov: Under no circumstances must we underrate fascism's power of ideological infection. On the contrary, we for our part must develop an extensive ideological struggle based on clear, popular arguments and a correct, well thought out approach to the peculiarities of the national psychology of the masses of the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Aneurin Bevan: The issue therefore in a capitalist democracy resolves itself into this: either poverty will use democracy to win the struggle against property, or property, in fear of poverty, will destroy democracy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Aneurin Bevan: No serious student who studies the history of the last half century can deny the ferment of ideas associated with the names of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Their effectiveness in arming the minds of working-class leaders all over the world with intellectual weapons showed that their teaching had an organic relationship with the political and social realities of their time. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Aneurin Bevan: A free health service is pure Socialism and as such it is opposed to the hedonism of capitalist society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Aneurin Bevan: No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied aid because of lack of means. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eugene V. Debs: The prison in our modern life is essentially a capitalistic institution, an inherent and inseparable part of the social and economic system under which the mass of mankind are ruthlessly exploited and kept in an impoverished state, as a result of which the struggle for existence, cruel and relentless at best, drives thousands of its victims into the commission of offenses which they are forced to expiate in the dungeons provided for them by their masters.The prison as a rule, to which there are few exceptions, is for the poor.The owning and ruling class hold the keys of the prison the same as they do of the mill and mine. They are the keepers of both and their exploited slaves are the inmates and victims of both.As long as the people are satisfied with capitalism they will have to bear its consequences in the prison sentences imposed upon increasing numbers of them, and also bear the poverty and misery which fall to the lot of those who toil and produce the wealth of the nation.The prison at present is at best a monumental evil and a burning shame to society. It ought not merely to be reformed but abolished as an institution for the punishment and degradation of unfortunate human beings. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tolstoy: All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
