Paul Comley French: (I saw) Gerald P. MacGuire in the offices of Grayson M.-P. Murphy & Co., the twelfth floor of 52 Broadway, shortly after 1 o'clock in the afternoon. He has a small private office there and I went into his office. I have here some direct quotes from him. As soon as I left his office I got to a typewriter and made a memorandum of everything that he told me. "We need a Fascist government in this country," he insisted, "to save the Nation from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we have built in America. The only men who have the, patriotism to do it are the soldiers and Smedley Butler is the ideal leader. He could organize a million men over night." During the conversation he told me he had been in Italy and Germany during the summer of 1934 and the spring of 1934 and had made an intensive study of the background of the Nazi and Fascist movements and how the veterans had played a part in them. He said he had obtained enough information on the Fascist and Nazi movements and of the part played by the veterans, to properly set up one in this country. He emphasized throughout his conversation with me that the whole thing was tremendously patriotic, that it was saving the Nation from communists, and that the men they deal with have that crackbrained idea that the Communists are going to take it apart. He said the only safeguard would be the soldiers. At first he suggested that the General organize this outfit himself and ask a dollar a year dues from everybody. We discussed that, and then he came around to the point of getting outside financial funds, and he said that it would not be any trouble to raise a million dollars. During the course of the conversation he continually discussed the need of a man on a white horse, as he called it, a dictator who would come galloping in on his white horse. He said that was the only way; either through the threat of armed force or the delegation of power, and the use of a group of organized veterans, to save the capitalistic system. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: And so, in dealing from this angle with the tasks confronting the youth, I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organizations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Michael Parenti: Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The rich, who consume the products of the labor of others, can only obtain them by making exchanges. They therefore seem to be exposed to an early exhaustion of their reserve funds. But…wealth has acquired the power of reproducing itself through the labor of others. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: It’s true we’re still in need. But we’ll help you defend the Cuban revolution that emerged victorious for the first time in Latin America, even if that means we have to tighten our belt. That is a sacred duty of us communists working for proletarian internationalism. Genuine communists are just true proletarian internationalist. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: Genuine communists are just true proletarian internationalists. This is a revolutionary principle Kim Il Sung implanted in my mind. I’ve decided to dedicate myself to proletarian internationalism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Philby: I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Why did they think that by killing him, he would cease to exist as a fighter? Today Che is in every place, wherever there is a just cause to defend. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Philip Agee: In the CIA we didn't give a hoot about democracy. It was fine if a government was elected and would cooperate with us, but if it didn't, then democracy didn't mean a thing to us. And I don't think it means a thing today. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Dostoyevski: Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Pablo Neruda: Many of the creative spirits of our time do not realize that what seems to them to be the deepest expression of their being is often deadly poison injected into them by their most implacable enemies. Dying capitalism is filling the cup of human creation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kwame Nkrumah: Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialized if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Adam Smith: People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or on some contrivance to raise prices. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Palmiro Togliatti: When we speak of 'adversaries' we do not have in mind the masses enrolled in the fascist, social-democratic and Catholic organizations. Our adversaries are the fascist, social-democratic and Catholic "organizations". wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Hello there. Glasgow calling. I'm an analogue digital hybrid who cares about mental health issues, music, photography and art. I'm deeply suspicious of ducks (in a less than serious way) and although I exist on Mastodon I'm keen to migrate to Friendica. Best wishes all.
@Moshe Oh dear. Not good. I had 2 and a half years of long covid from the first variant. Have managed to avoid this variant so far (famous last words) . Wishing you a speedy recovery.
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