Charles Chaplin: The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: The U.S. imperialists are more afraid of the united strength of the revolutionary peoples of the world than of anything else. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Gilligan: Violent criminals are not violent because they are dumb, out of touch with reality, or unable to recognize hypocrisy, dishonesty, and injustice when they see it. They are violent precisely because they are aware of the hypocrisy, dishonesty, and injustice that surrounds them and of which they have been the victims. That does not mean that they respond to those conditions in a rational or just way, or that we should tolerate and permit their violence — which affects their fellow victims much more often than it does their oppressors. But it does mean that we cannot expect to stop the kind of violence that we call crime until we stop the kind of violence that I have called structural in "Structural Violence" (1999). By this I mean the deaths and disabilities that are caused by the economic structure of our society, its division into rich and poor. Structural violence is not only the main form of violence, in the sense that poverty kills far more people (almost all of them very poor) than all the behavioral violence put together, it is also the main cause of violent behavior. Eliminating structural violence means eliminating relative poverty. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Winona LaDuke: Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Alan Greenspan: The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gus Hall: To recite the words of Lenin in the abstract, without consideration of time and specific objective surroundings, to recite words without considering historical context is not to defend the science of Marxism-Leninism, but to destroy it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paulo Freire: There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: In brief, dialectics can be defined as the doctrine of the unity of opposites. This embodies the essence of dialectics, but it requires explanations and development. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Carl von Clausewitz: War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Milton Friedman: Let us suppose now that one day a helicopter flies over this community and drops an additional $1,000 in bills from the sky, which is, of course, hastily collected by members of the community. Let us suppose further that everyone is convinced that this is a unique event which will never be repeated. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: There are people who think that Marxism is a kind of magic truth with which one can cure any disease. We should tell them that dogmas are more useless than cow dung. Dung can be used as fertilizer. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
@Shiri Bailem Yeah. They messed something up with their backups while updating Friendica or something like that. They couldn't manage to restore everything and gave up, sadly. But I'm glad I've found your server! 😀
@Charline yeah, these databases get huge and it becomes a lot harder to restore. a month or two ago I lost a few days to a database crash, this morning's database backup was 4GB. It takes like half an hour to start the database if it's not a clean shutdown (and about as much time to cleanly shut down).
Võ Nguyên Giáp: The War of Liberation of the Vietnamese people proves that, in the face of an enemy as powerful as he is cruel, victory is possible only by uniting the whole people within the bosom of a firm and wide national united front based on the worker -peasant alliance. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Marcus Aurelius: The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gus Hall: The ideological machinery of capitalism grinds out propaganda against labor in an endless stream, like a sausage machine turns out frankfurters. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Without the victory of the revolutionary proletariat, there would be no peace for the people, land for the peasants, nor bread for the workers and all working people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John Maynard Keynes: Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gudrun Ensslin: This fascist state intends to kill all of us. We must organize resistance. Violence can only be answered with violence. This is the generation of Auschwitz (referring to the West German government and society), you cannot argue with them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gudrun Ensslin: You have to make clear that it's social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gudrun Ensslin: Without simultaneously building the Red Army, every conflict, all political work in the factories, in the Wedding and Märkische Viertel districts,** in the Plötze,*** and in the courtroom will degenerate into nothing more than reformism, which means you merely push through better means of discipline, better methods of intimidation, better methods of exploitation. All that does is break the people down. It does not break down what breaks the people down! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Shiri Bailem
in reply to Charline • •@Charline oh shit, nerdica failed?!
I'm deeply flattered you chose my server as a replacement!
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Charline
in reply to Shiri Bailem • •Shiri Bailem
in reply to Charline • •@Charline yeah, these databases get huge and it becomes a lot harder to restore. a month or two ago I lost a few days to a database crash, this morning's database backup was 4GB. It takes like half an hour to start the database if it's not a clean shutdown (and about as much time to cleanly shut down).
It's kinda a nightmare lol
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