Käte Duncker: Men and women, as free and equal, must work together to realize our high goal: the abolition of wage slavery and thus the preparation of the soil on which a better and happier human race can and will grow. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Z. Foster: Wall Street, with it's fascist like Taft-Hartley bill, also wants to kill the communist party. But they will fail in this as in their other anti-labor objectives. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ethel Rosenberg: We do not pretend that we are unafraid. But we fear also for those for whom our death sentence is a precedent, for those who like us may find themselves in our place, unless you, who are free today, make us free again. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: Therefore the more civilization advances, the more it is compelled to cover the evils it necessarily creates with the cloak of love and charity, to palliate them or to deny them-in short, to introduce a conventional hypocrisy which was unknown to earlier forms of society and even to the first stages of civilization, and which culminates in the pronouncement: the exploitation of the oppressed class is carried on by the exploiting class simply and solely in the interests of the exploited class itself; and if the exploited class cannot see it and even grows rebellious, that is the basest ingratitude to its benefactors, the exploiters. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: So long as wage-slavery exists, inevitably prostitution too will exist. All the oppressed and exploited classes throughout the history of human societies have always been forced (and it is in this that their exploitation consists) to give up to their oppressors, first, their unpaid labour and, second, their women as concubines for the "masters". Slavery, feudalism and capitalism are identical in this respect. It is only the form of exploitation that changes; the exploitation itself remains. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: One expression of the genius of Marx and Engels was that they despised pedantic playing with new words, erudite terms, and subtle “isms,” and said simply and plainly: there is a materialist line and an idealist line in philosophy, and between them there are various shades of agnosticism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Emil Ruthenberg: The Bolsheviks are the grave-diggers of capitalism and the builder of the new world. They are... putting in place the foundation on which will be erected the structure of the new society — the better and more beautiful world of the future. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The interests of the bourgeoisie demand the embellishment of capitalism and the concealment of the gulf that divides the classes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Z. Foster: To outlaw and destroy the Communist Party is another imperative necessity for the capitalists in their attempt to break down working class opposition to their drive for imperialist mastery of the world. For these rulers understand very well, even if many workers and their friends do not, that the Communist Party is indeed the vanguard of the working class, the true party of the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Galeazzo Ciano: As always, victory will have a hundred fathers, but defeat will never be acknowledged by anyone at all. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: If every worker and every peasant had had a rifle like that in their hands, there would never have been a fascist coup. That is the great lesson to be learned for revolutionaries from events in Chile. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jamil Al-Amin: Those who understand the nature of the struggle, our job is to organize, not to be projected as leaders. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jean-Paul Sartre: Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: Today, two big mountains lie like a dead weight on the Chinese people. One is imperialism, the other is feudalism. The Chinese Communist Party has long made up its mind to dig them up. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
