Plato: Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they're unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who've had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people's property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Walter Rodney: Patriotism must be understood in a class context—one can be patriotic in defense of a capitalist state or in defense of a workers’ state. These are two different things, for when a worker is patriotic in a capitalist state he is just serving as his own oppressor. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Getting tired of people pretending Jews can't possibly know the difference between Holocaust and "run of the mill" genocide (both are bad, one just is much more orchestrated).
But why should I be surprised? The pajamafication of the holocaust means most people don't even understand a damn thing about it anyways.
Karl Marx: By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit thus become the most potent means of driving capitalist production beyond its own limits, and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John Maynard Keynes: For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John Kenneth Galbraith: The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas: The modern banking system manufactures "money" out of nothing; and the process is, perhaps, the most, astounding piece of "sleight of hand" that was ever invented. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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/…
