Plato: One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its own product in the form of capital wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: There has not been in the history of mankind a single great movement of the oppressed in which women toilers have not participated. Women toilers, the most oppressed of all the oppressed, have never kept away from the high road of the emancipation movement, and never could have done so. As is known, the movement for the emancipation of the slaves brought to the front hundreds of thousands of great women martyrs and heroines. In the ranks of the fighters for the emancipation of the serfs there were tens of thousands of women toilers. It is not surprising that the revolutionary working-class movement, the mightiest of all the emancipation movements of the oppressed masses, has rallied millions of women toilers to its banner. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Plato: Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequaled alike. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: If the wealth of society declines the worker suffers most of all, and for the following reason: although the working class cannot gain so much as can the class of property owners in a prosperous state of society, no one suffers so cruelly from its decline as the working class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: In economically backward and semi-colonial China the landlord class and the comprador class are wholly appendages of the international bourgeoisie, depending upon imperialism for their survival ant growth. These classes represent the most backward and most reactionary relations of production in China and hinder the development of her productive forces. Their existence is utterly incompatible with the aims of the Chinese revolution. The big landlord and big comprador classes in particular always side with imperialism and constitute an extreme counterrevolutionary group. Their political representatives are the Étatistes and the right-wing of the Kuomintang. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Will Durant: It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Alexandra Kollontai: There are individuals – a mere handful in the history of mankind – who, while themselves being the product of an imminent catastrophic change, leave their mark upon an entire epoch. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is one such giant mind, one such giant will... wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The petty-bourgeois democrats, those sham socialists who replaced the class struggle by dreams of class harmony, even pictured the socialist transformation in a dreamy fashion — not as the overthrow of the rule of the exploiting class, but as the peaceful submission of the minority to the majority which has become aware of its aims. This petty-bourgeois utopia, which is inseparable from the idea of the state being above classes, led in practice to the betrayal of the interests of the working classes, as was shown, for example, by the history of the French revolutions of 1848 and 1871, and by the experience of “socialist” participation in bourgeois Cabinets in Britain, France, Italy and other countries at the turn of the century. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joe Biden: We should announce there's going to be American casualties. We should go to Belgrade and we should have a Japanese-German style occupation of that country. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joe Biden: Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ: People ask me who my heroes are. have only one -- Hitler. I admire Hitler because he has pulled his country together when it was in a terrible state in the early thirties. But the situation here is so desperate now that one man would not be enough. We need four or five Hitlers in Vietnam. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Hence, if it is not to err in policy, the party of the proletariat must both in drafting its programme and in its practical activities proceed primarily from the laws of development of production, from the laws of economic development of society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: There can be no doubt that dire poverty alone compels people to abandon their native land, and that the capitalists exploit the immigrant workers in the most shameless manner. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Assata Shakur: Throughout amerika's history, people have been imprisoned because of their political beliefs and charged with criminal acts in order to justify that imprisonment. Those who have dared to speak out against the injustices in this country, both Black and white, have paid dearly for their courage, sometimes with their lives. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ludo Martens: For thirty-five years, the revisionists worked to destroy Stalin. Once Stalin was demolished, Lenin was liquidated with a flick of the wrist. Khrushchev fought mercilessly against Stalin. Gorbachev carried on by leading, during his five years of glastnost, a crusade against `Stalinism'. Notice that the dismantling of Lenin's statues was not preceded by a political campaign against his work. The campaign against Stalin was sufficient. Once Stalin's ideas were attacked, vilified and destroyed, it became clear that Lenin's ideas had suffered the same fate. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Assata Shakur: All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Assata Shakur: And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Assata Shakur: Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
