Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: To build socialism means not only building gigantic factories and flour mills. This is essential but not enough for building socialism. People must grow in mind and heart. And on the basis of this individual growth of each in our conditions a new type of mighty socialist collective will in the long run be formed, where 'I' and 'we' will merge into one inseparable whole. Such a collective can only develop on the basis of profound ideological solidarity and an equally profound emotional rapprochement, mutual understanding. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Klaus Schwab: What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate the global cabinets of countries with our WEF Young Global Leaders. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Liz Truss: The cut and thrust of a free press, even if some people find it offensive, is a vital part of a free country. I would die in a ditch for it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Dmitrii Moor: Confession was not invented for nothing. It is through your confession that your every thought will reach the ears of the district policeman. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Connolly: Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: It is true that labor produces for the rich wonderful things – but for the worker it produces privation. It produces palaces – but for the worker, hovels. It produces beauty – but for the worker, deformity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible, and promote the best interests of humanity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets. ... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
V.J. Jerome: This struggle on two fronts is the purifying force which Lenin revitalized in forging world Bolshevism; it is the war of extermination which Stalin has relentlessly waged and taught every Communist Party to wage against the Right and 'Left' deviators from Marxism-Leninism and against all conciliators to opportunism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Rosa Luxemburg: We prefer the most expensive republic to the cheapest monarchy; this is not a matter of money: the monarchy is the most backward tool of class rule. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Bukowski: They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Malcolm X: A new world is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves so that we may take our rightful place in it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Soviet, or socialist, democracy sweeps aside the pompous, bullying, words, declares ruthless war on the hypocrisy of the "democrats", the landlords, capitalists or well-fed peasants who are making money by selling their surplus bread to hungry workers at profiteering prices. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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Karl Marx: In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ayn Rand: It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Mann: To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point the finger at any of its new instances - every day and in every part of the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jonah Goldberg: Fascism is a religion of the state. It assumes the organic unity of the body politic and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people. It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything, including economy and religion, must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the "problem" and therefore defined as the enemy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
I'm recovering from the trauma of constantly being hyper-vigilant of how I might present as a threat, constantly focused on how to make others feel safe around me...
and now I've traded it for the trauma of being constantly hyper-vigilant of potential threats around me.
It sucks but honestly I prefer it to the intense sense of isolation and loneliness.
@Shiri Bailem Much empathy as somebody on their own trauma recovery journey and an lgbtqia background and ally. It's tough out there for many in the trans community with so much ill founded backlash scapegoating in some countries and online. Solidarity with your journey and hopefully dealing with your hyper vigilance and trauma issues.
Roger Griffin: (Fascism is) a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti conservative nationalism. As such it is an ideology deeply bound up with modernization and modernity, one which has assumed a considerable variety of external forms to adapt itself to the particular historical and national context in which it appears, and has drawn a wide range of cultural and intellectual currents, both left and right, anti-modern and pro-modern, to articulate itself as a body of ideas, slogans, and doctrine. In the inter-war period it manifested itself primarily in the form of an elite-led "armed party" which attempted, mostly unsuccessfully, to generate a populist mass movement through a liturgical style of politics and a programme of radical policies which promised to overcome a threat posed by international socialism, to end the degeneration affecting the nation under liberalism, and to bring about a radical renewal of its social, political and cultural life as part of what was widely imagined to be the new era being inaugurated in Western civilization. The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation's imminent rebirth from decadence. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Aldous Huxley: Of course, I am against fascism with its spread of color prejudice and race hatred and working class oppression. How could any sensible Negro be otherwise? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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in reply to Shiri Bailem • •Solidarity with your journey and hopefully dealing with your hyper vigilance and trauma issues.
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