Santiago Ramón y Cajal: All outstanding work, in art as well as in science, results from immense zeal applied to a great idea. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Sankara: In these tempestuous times, we cannot leave our enemies of the past and the present the monopoly on thought, imagination, and creativity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: There are innumerable principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: 'To rebel is justified.' For thousands of years everyone said, 'Oppression is justified, exploitation is justified, rebellion is not justified.' From the time that Marxism appeared on the scene, this old judgment was turned upside down, and this is a great contribution. This principle was derived by the proletariat from its struggles, but Marx drew the conclusion. In accordance with this principle, there was then resistance, there was struggle, and socialism was realized. What is Comrade Stalin's contribution? He developed this principle, developed Marxism-Leninism, and produced a very clear, concrete, and living doctrine for the oppressed people of the whole world. This is the complete doctrine for establishing a revolutionary front, overthrowing imperialism, overthrowing capitalism, and establishing a socialist society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Sydney J. Harris: History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Milton Friedman: We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Milton Friedman: We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Milton Friedman: I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Abraham Lincoln: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: If the state is the product of class antagonisms that stands above society while ‘alienating itself more and more from it’, liberation of the oppressed is impossible without destruction of the apparatus of state power which was created to embody alienation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cheng Enfu: Peaceful means should be the first choice, and permanent peace is the ideal goal pursued by progressive human beings. In the area of international relations, we need to create a 'New Internationalist' school of Marxism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tulsi Gabbard: I can no longer remain in today's Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith & spirituality, demonize the police & protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Connolly: Socialism bases itself upon its knowledge of facts, of economic truths, and leaves the building up of religious ideals or faiths to the public. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, and once capital has gained possession of this shell, it establishes power so securely that no change of persons, institutions, or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Sankara: The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or because of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the triumph of the revolution. Women hold up the other half of the sky. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Sankara: Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights...Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Sankara: Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa. It is a reconquest that turns each one of us into a financial slave. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament—this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John W. Whitehead: The Deep State not only holds the nation's capital in thrall, but it also controls Wall Street ("which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater") and Silicon Valley. This is fascism in its most covert form, hiding behind public agencies and private companies to carry out its dirty deeds. It is a marriage between government bureaucrats and corporate fat cats. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
İbrahim Kaypakkaya: Since there was no communist leadership to show the way to the masses, the popular opposition followed this or that reactionary clique and was squandered. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Alexander Hamilton: In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
V.J. Jerome: The revisionist theory of accretion through reforms, of a peaceful succession to Socialism, of the substitution of an inter-class coalition government for the dictatorship of the proletariat, is manifestly in diametric opposition to everything that Marxism stands for the notion of an arithmetic progression of democratic reforms until the cipher Socialism is attained, constitutes an outright denial of dialectics in the social process. It represents the rejection of the dialectics of democracy, and its replacement by the metaphysical concept of democracy as an abstract, immutable, class-transcending form of society, as a form of society which is ideal both for bourgeoisie and proletariat, and which can therefore best be achieved through the harmonious collaboration of the classes. This is the "Marxism" of social democracy. And against this degradation of the revolutionary theory of the proletariat, Leninism comes forward in struggle. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
