Mao Zedong: We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eugene V. Debs: The capitalist class is unnecessary to society. Its members do absolutely nothing that is useful. Their function is to spend what the working class produces. Let me use Andrew Carnegie as an illustration. He is a fully developed capitalist and therefore a fully developed parasite. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jane Fonda: Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Anuradha Ghandy: By propagating women’s nature as non-violent they are discouraging women from becoming fighters in the struggle for their own liberation and that of society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Walter Ulbricht: The smashing of fascism, that means: Hunting down the factory owners, the landowners and all exploiters, that means: All power to the working class and the buildup of a free, socialist republic! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: Collectivism is humanity's intrinsic need. People can exist and develop only when they work as a social collective. People can transform nature and society and meet their desire for independence, not as individuals, but only through collective cooperation among members of society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fred Hampton: If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind if you're not going to work for the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eugene V. Debs: The red flag is an omen of ill, a sign of terror to every tyrant, every robber, and every vampire that sucks the life of labor and mocks at its misery. It is an emblem of hope, a bow of promise to all the oppressed and downtrodden of the earth. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kwame Nkrumah: The granting of economic "aid" from capitalist countries is one of the most insidious ways in which neocolonialism hinders economic progress in the developing world, retarding industrialisation and delaying the development of a large proletariat. Only 10 per cent of U.S. "aid" to Africa is spent on industrialisation, and most of this is in those areas regarded as "safe" for capitalism. In contrast, 70 per cent of aid from socialist countries is spent on industrialisation and the organisation of profitable production. Interest rates on loans from capitalist countries vary from between 6J to 8 per cent, whereas socialist creditors charge only 2 per cent. Aid from socialist countries is used mainly for state projects. This again is in striking contrast to "aid" from the West, which is almost entirely in the private sector. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Woolsey: U.S has tried to meddle in other countries’ elections? -Oh probably, but… for the good of the system… to avoid communists from taking over. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Habash: In today’s world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harry F. Ward: To sit in with these small groups of workers, to attend the larger production conferences, is to see the term 'creative democracy' come alive. At the top the knowledge of the experts, along the way the capacities of the managers and technicians, make the plan possible. At the bottom it is the experience and the will of the workers that makes the plan the fusion of the lives of all in forming the shape of things to come. So democracy becomes more than the exercise of rights. In its economic form it is the common effort to achieve common aims. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harry Truman: If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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/…
Listened to a command on the internet informing me how to remove dependencies using pacman on arch. Ended up removing ca-certificates and fucking my system. Had to reinstall those packages from cache.
