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/…
Mist and fog clouds over this domain. The thoughts of raceme flowers and pinnated ferns hang over my minds eye as I walk with covered pupils. The hard dirt feels rock like, with an occasional trip over roots.
Pulling me down a pathway of cedar and pine, nesting in its canopy, birds orientated skywards to a plateau of limitless sky. Just out of reac- war̓n̼͚͜i̴͈ng,͈͑̌ l͓̀o̩͋ͬw̦͊ b̵̍a̶͋͂t̫tê̾̍r͉̔͠y
Friedrich Engels: These strikes, at first skirmishes, sometimes result in weighty struggles; they decide nothing, it is true, but they are the strongest proof that the decisive battle between bourgeoisie and proletariat is approaching. They are the military school of the working-men in which they prepare themselves for the great struggle which cannot be avoided; they are the pronunciamentos of single branches of industry that these too have joined the labour movement. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Being a school of communism in general, the trade unions must, in particular, be a school for training the whole mass of workers, and eventually all working people, in the art of managing socialist industry (and gradually also agriculture). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The trade unions were a tremendous step forward for the working class in the early days of capitalist development, inasmuch as they marked a transition from the workers’ disunity and helplessness to the rudiments of class organisation. When the revolutionary party of the proletariat, the highest form of proletarian class organisation, began to take shape (and the Party will not merit the name until it learns to weld the leaders into one indivisible whole with the class and the masses) the trade unions inevitably began to reveal certain reactionary features, a certain craft narrow-mindedness, a certain tendency to be non-political, a certain inertness, etc. However, the development of the proletariat did not, and could not, proceed anywhere in the world otherwise than through the trade unions, through reciprocal action between them and the party of the working class. The proletariat’s conquest of political power is a gigantic step forward for the proletariat as a class, and the Party must more than ever and in a new way, not only in the old, educate and guide the trade unions, at the same time bearing in mind that they are and will long remain an indispensable “school of communism” and a preparatory school that trains proletarians to exercise their dictatorship, an indispensable organisation of the workers for the gradual transfer of the management of the whole economic life of the country to the working class (and not to the separate trades), and later to all the working people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Miriam Makeba: The conqueror writes history. They came, they conquered, and they wrote. Now you don’t expect people who came to invade us to write the truth about us. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
