Moissaye J. Olgin: This is capitalism in its modern form. This is capitalist civilization. A palace built on crushed human bones. Glittering glory for a few at the price of oceans of blood and tears of the many. Progress running amuck at every step... Prosperity devouring itself and devouring untold human lives. Expansion made possible by killing and maiming huge masses of innocent people. Scientific advance made to serve the purpose of destruction. Security for the non-producers; starvation for the producers... The drones in great esteem; the workers downtrodden and despised. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William F. Dunne: As a worker, ordinary, daily events of development of the class struggle are familiar to them. They expect these things as the routine of working-class life and see no news value in them. It is this outlook of the worker that makes it hard for them to write or speak. They are not inarticulate because of lack of words, but because they have been taught by capitalism to look upon the thousand and one tyrannies, inconveniences, and hardships inflicted on the workers as of little importance — things to be endured without comment or complaint. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Hey there, I'm Kees (they/them/their, ne/nem/nir), a 30-something bug living in California. I'm hoping to make this my public facing account to share my art and generally interact with the rest of the fediverse.
I'm an amateur naturalist (I like BIRDS and BUGS, especially parasitic wasps) and I do art in various media (digital, watercolor, acrylic), usually of birds or original characters from an ARPG I help run. #tokipona li pona. Aaand I don't know what else to put in here so I'll stop ha.
Thomas Sankara: Eternal glory to the peoples who are struggling for their freedom! Eternal glory to the peoples who stand shoulder to shoulder to defend their dignity! Eternal victory to the peoples of Africa, Latin America and Asia in their struggle! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nikola Tesla: The scientific man doesn’t aim at an immediate result. He doesn’t expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. 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
Stalin: Industrial crises, which sound the death knell of capitalist property and bluntly put the question: capitalism or socialism, make this conclusion absolutely obvious; they vividly reveal the parasitism of the capitalists and the inevitability of the victory of socialism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: Like a tree that has sunk its roots deep in the earth, which does not fall no matter how fierce the storm may be, the party can remain firm in any circumstances only when it has sunk its roots deep in the broad masses. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Now I'm cranky because I had to ban a user for genocide denial bullshit...
How the hell do you come onto a blatantly anti-Zionist server and think you're going to get a chill response at claiming the palestinian genocide isn't real?
Deng Xiaoping: If we had taken the capitalist road, we could not have put an end to the chaos in the country or done away with poverty or backwardness. That is why we have repeatedly declared that we shall adhere to Marxism and keep the socialist road. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: The struggle between socialism and capitalism is the struggle between collectivism and individualism and the superiority of socialism over capitalism is the superiority of collectivism over individualism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: Those who only pursue their own pleasure cry and laugh because of money, but those who wage revolution seek their self-worth, pleasure, happiness and honour and feel dignity and pride in devoting themselves to the benefit of their community and posterity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: A revolution not guided by a correct idea, theory and method is doomed to go off course and wander like a ship without a compass. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: As a house on a weak foundation cannot last long, a fantasy, however good it is, becomes an absurd daydream if it is supported by weak basic knowledge. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words that are easily understood by ordinary people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: All that modern nations have achieved is to disguise slavery at home and import it openly into the New World. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paul Comley French: (I saw) Gerald P. MacGuire in the offices of Grayson M.-P. Murphy & Co., the twelfth floor of 52 Broadway, shortly after 1 o'clock in the afternoon. He has a small private office there and I went into his office. I have here some direct quotes from him. As soon as I left his office I got to a typewriter and made a memorandum of everything that he told me. "We need a Fascist government in this country," he insisted, "to save the Nation from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we have built in America. The only men who have the, patriotism to do it are the soldiers and Smedley Butler is the ideal leader. He could organize a million men over night." During the conversation he told me he had been in Italy and Germany during the summer of 1934 and the spring of 1934 and had made an intensive study of the background of the Nazi and Fascist movements and how the veterans had played a part in them. He said he had obtained enough information on the Fascist and Nazi movements and of the part played by the veterans, to properly set up one in this country. He emphasized throughout his conversation with me that the whole thing was tremendously patriotic, that it was saving the Nation from communists, and that the men they deal with have that crackbrained idea that the Communists are going to take it apart. He said the only safeguard would be the soldiers. At first he suggested that the General organize this outfit himself and ask a dollar a year dues from everybody. We discussed that, and then he came around to the point of getting outside financial funds, and he said that it would not be any trouble to raise a million dollars. During the course of the conversation he continually discussed the need of a man on a white horse, as he called it, a dictator who would come galloping in on his white horse. He said that was the only way; either through the threat of armed force or the delegation of power, and the use of a group of organized veterans, to save the capitalistic system. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: And so, in dealing from this angle with the tasks confronting the youth, I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organizations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Michael Parenti: Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The rich, who consume the products of the labor of others, can only obtain them by making exchanges. They therefore seem to be exposed to an early exhaustion of their reserve funds. But…wealth has acquired the power of reproducing itself through the labor of others. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
