Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Wim Wenders: Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: “entertainment” movies. They are the most political films there are because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything’s fine the way it is. They are a continual advertisement for things as they are. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Phoumi Vongvichit: This glorious victory of the Lao people, like that of the Vietnamese people in the resistance against the French colonialists and American interventionists, have proved that even a small nation can get the better of any imperialists aggressor. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Z. Foster: Lenin, in fighting for a correct political line, fought on two fronts. That is, he combated both the right danger and all forms of pseudo-leftism. This two-front fight was particularly necessary in the United States with its ingrained historical right weakness of American exceptionalism and its long affliction of 'left' sectarianism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Son of a bitch! (This was Fidel Castro’s reaction in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis to the decision by Nikita Khrushchev, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), to remove medium-range ballistic missiles from Cuba in exchange for a U.S. pledge not to invade the Isle of Freedom). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Arthur Schopenhauer: Religions are like glow-worms: they need darkness in order to shine. A certain degree of general ignorance is the condition for the existence of any religion. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gerry Spence: The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Salvador Allende: The cycle of intervention, brutality and murder, often masked under the rhetoric of humanitarianism, is how American imperialism has worked since that country's inception. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Amilcar Cabral: Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jean-Luc Godard: Fifty years after the October Revolution, the American industry rules cinema the world over. There is nothing much to add to this statement of fact. Except that on our own modest level we too should provoke two or three Vietnams in the bosom of the vast Hollywood-Cinecittá-Mosfilm-Pinewood-etc. empire, and, both economically and aesthetically, struggling on two fronts as it were, create cinemas which are national, free, brotherly, comradely and bonded in friendship. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for 'bread! bread!' and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism.... My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nelson Mandela: Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Louis XVI: You want to erase over a millennium of our history, destroying our constitutional politics and rebuilding a new one from the ashes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Capitalist production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth—the soil and the worker. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Frank Church: The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The role of a newspaper, however, is not limited solely to the dissemination of ideas, to political education, and to the enlistment of political allies. A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: We by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people – we belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to correctly learn and apply its laws. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fred Hampton: First of all, we say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx, and Lenin, and Che Guevara end Mao Tse-Tung and anybody else that has ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that revolution is a class struggle. It was one class—the oppressed—those other class—the oppressor. And it’s got to be a universal fact. Those that don’t admit to that are those that don’t want to get involved in a revolution, because they know that as long as they’re dealing with a race thing, they’ll never be involved in a revolution. They can talk about numbers; they can hang you up in many, many ways, but as soon as you start talking about class, then you got to start talking about some guns. And that’s what the Party had to do. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ho Chi Minh: The third enemy is individualism, the petty-bourgeois mentality which still lurks in each of us. It is waiting for an opportunity - either failure or success - to rear its head. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Always be on the alert against Trotskyism, reformism and revisionism / Soyez toujours en alerte contre le trotskysme, le réformisme et le révisionnisme / Seid immer wachsam gegen Trotzkismus, Reformismus und Revisionismus NULL
George Carlin: War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class men off to die. It always has been. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
