K. V. Ostrovityanov: Social property is the foundation of the socialist system, the source of wealth and power of the Motherland, the means to a rich and cultured life for all the working people. It is sacred and inviolable. The Constitution of the U.S.S.R. obliges every citizen in Soviet society to safeguard and strengthen social property. Persons attacking socialist property are enemies of the people and are punished by law. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: In the first phase of communism, social or socialist property exists in two forms; (1) State property and (2) co-operative and collective farm property. State socialist property is the property of the whole of the Soviet people, vested in the Socialist State of workers and peasants. Co-operative and collective farm socialist property is the property of individual collective farms and co-operative unions. To the two forms of socialist property there correspond two forms of socialist economy: (1) State enterprise (factories, mills, State farms, M.T .S., etc.) and (2) co-operative (collective) economy (collective farms, industrial artels, enterprises of the consumer co-operatives). The existence of the two forms of socialist property is the result of the historical conditions in which the proletarian revolution and the construction of communism take place. Having won State power, the working class finds in existence different forms of private property which have evolved in the course of history: on the one hand, large-scale capitalist property based on the exploitation of hired labour and, on the other, small-scale private property of the peasants, artisans and handicraftsmen which is based on their personal labour. In the course of the socialist revolution large-scale capitalist property is expropriated and passes into the hands of the socialist State. Hence there arises State (public) socialist property. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: State socialist property differs fundamentally from State capitalist property. When one enterprise or another, or even a whole branch of the economy, becomes the property of the bourgeois State, its social nature is unaltered. The modern bourgeois State represents the interests of monopoly capital and is an instrument of coercion in its hands, with which it protects the oppression of the working majority by the propertied minority. Accordingly, State capitalist enterprises, too, are based on the exploitation of the working people and stand opposed to the people, as an alien and oppressive force. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: In socialist society power is in the hands of the working people, headed by the working class. They own the means of production. The labour-power used in socialist enterprises is not a commodity, since the working people who own the means of production, cannot sell their labour-power to themselves. Accordingly, every possibility of the exploitation of man by man is ruled out in socialist enterprises. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: The differences between State enterprises and co-operative (collective) enterprises are not differences of a fundamental kind. They are differences of two forms of economy within the framework of socialist relations of production. State property is the highest form of socialist property, and the State form of production is the highest form of socialist production. Enterprises based wholly on State property are of a consistently socialist type. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stephen Hawking: My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The experience of all liberation movements has shown that the success of a revolution depends on how much the women take part in it. The Soviet government is doing everything in its power to enable women to carry on independent proletarian socialist work. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The Soviet government is in a difficult position because the imperialists of all countries hate Soviet Russia and are preparing to go to war with her for kindling the fire of revolution in a number of countries and for taking determined steps towards socialism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Albert Einstein: Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Albert Einstein: Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willingto work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers' goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before. This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: But a slave who becomes conscious of his servitude and rises to struggle for his emancipation has already half ceased to be a slave. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: In socialist society each worker receives material wealth according to the quantity and quality of his labour . The distribution of the national income serves to raise the welfare of the working people, extend socialist production in town and country and increase the social wealth. Under capitalism, distribution of the national income takes place for the purpose of enriching the exploiting classes and their numerous parasitic menials. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: When power passes to the Soviets the capitalists will come out against us. Japan, France, Britain the governments of all countries will be against us. The capitalists will be against, but the workers will be for us. That will be the end of the war which the capitalists started. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: The conditions of the struggle against the Soviet power dictated a union of the two anti-Soviet forces, foreign and domestic. And this union was effected in the first half of 1918. This was how the foreign military intervention against the Soviet power supported by counter-revolutionary revolts of its foes at home originated. This was the end of the respite in Russia and the beginning of the Civil War, which was a war of the workers and peasants of the nations of Russia against the foreign and domestic enemies of the Soviet power. The imperialists of Great Britain, France, Japan and America started their military intervention without any declaration of war, although the intervention was a war, a war against Russia, and the worst kind of war at that. These "civilized" marauders secretly and stealthily made their way to Russian shores and landed their troops on Russia's territory. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: Under socialism, social ownership is completely predominant in all spheres of the national economy. In 1950 in the U.S.S.R., socialist property embraced 99.4 percent of all the means of production in use in the country. With the consolidation of the undivided predominance of social property, the false theory of bourgeois ideologists about the eternity and immutability of private capitalist property has been completely discredited. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: The conversion of the means of production into social property, and the emancipation of the workers from all forms of exploitation, signified the consolidation of the new socialist system of national economy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: In the socialist system of national economy the means of production are social property, that is, they belong to the working people in the person of either the socialist State or of the collective farms and other cooperative unions. Consequently, the products of labour also belong to the working people. In the capitalist economic system the means of production are the private property of the capitalists and landowners and consequently the products of labour also belong to the capitalists and landowners. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: The socialist system of national economy means that the exploitation of man by man has been abolished, and that the purpose of production is the maximum satisfaction of the growing material and cultural needs of the whole of society. Capitalist production is for the purpose of securing the maximum capitalist profit through the exploitation, ruin and enslavement of the working people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
K. V. Ostrovityanov: Socialist production develops in a planned way and without interruption. The steady rise in the living standards and purchasing power of the working people are a stimulus to increased production and a secure guarantee of freedom from crises of overproduction and unemployment. Capitalist production develops without plan. The growth of production runs up against the proletarian condition of the working people and the relative reduction of their purchasing power. This inevitably brings crises of overproduction, growing unemployment and impoverishment of the masses. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: The theoretical basis of scientific socialism is the materialist theory of Marx and Engels. From the standpoint of this theory the development of social life is wholly determined by the development of the productive forces. If the feudal-landlord system was superseded by the bourgeois system, the "blame" for this rests upon the development of the productive forces, which made the rise of the bourgeois system inevitable. Or again: if the present bourgeois system will inevitably be superseded by the socialist system, it is because this is called for by the development of the modern productive forces. Hence the historical necessity of the destruction of capitalism and the establishment of socialism. Hence the Marxist proposition that we must seek our ideals in the history, of the development of the productive forces and not in the minds of men. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Malcolm X: President Kennedy did not send troops to Alabama when dogs were biting black babies. He waited three weeks until the situation exploded. He then sent troops after the Negroes had demonstrated their ability to defend themselves. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Henry A. Wallace: The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Henry A. Wallace: They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Connolly: If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Sankara: You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: While Irish patriots continue to fight for independence, we have a moral duty to support their most righteous cause... the English call them 'criminals', the Yankees call them 'terrorists', we call them freedom fighters! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Voltaire: Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
