Otto Kuusinen: Never in the history of class society has the ruling class believed in the inevitable doom of its system. The slave-owners felt sure their system would last for ever, for had it not been established by divine will? The feudal lords who superseded them likewise believed their system had been established by divine will and for all time. But they were forced to give way to the bourgeoisie, and then it was its turn to seek comfort in the illusion that capitalism was "eternal" and "unassailable." And many learned sociologists and historians, reluctant to break with capitalism, try in every possible way to refute the fact that the development and change of social systems follow intrinsic laws that do not depend on the will of the ruling classes and their ideologists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Yasser Arafat: Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nelson Mandela: Dialectical materialism seemed to offer both a searchlight illuminating the dark night of racial oppression and a tool that could be used to end it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Adam McKay: Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Rand Paul: Do you know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: We have only one maxim, one slogan: All who work have the right to enjoy the benefits of life. Idlers and parasites who suck the blood of the working people must be deprived of these benefits. And we proclaim: Everything for the workers, everything for the working people! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Utopia is a Greek word, composed of ou, not, and topos, a place. It means a place which does not exist, a fantasy, invention or fairy-tale. In politics utopia is a wish that can never come true—neither now nor afterwards, a wish that is not based on social forces and is not supported by the growth and development of political, class forces. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Michael Parenti: But if history teaches us anything it is that the power of the propertied class never stands alone. It wraps itself in the flag and claims a devotion to God, country, and the public good. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John F. Kennedy: For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Everything, not merely the land, but human labour, the human being himself, conscience, love, science—everything must inevitably be for sale as long as the power of capital lasts. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Connolly: Legislation does not control the Lords of Industry; it is the Lords of Industry who control legislation. As we have often put it: The Class which rules industrially will rule politically. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Anatole France: The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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! 😀
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