Martin Luther King, Jr.: And one day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.' When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George L. Jackson: There are no good aspects of monopoly capital. Monopoly capital is the enemy. It crushes the life force of all of the people. It must be completely destroyed, as quickly as possible, utterly, totally, ruthlessly, relentlessly destroyed. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Always be on the alert against Trotskyism, reformism and revisionism / Soyez toujours en alerte contre le trotskysme, le réformisme et le révisionnisme / Seid immer wachsam gegen Trotzkismus, Reformismus und Revisionismus
Lenin: Salvation lies in monopoly, said the capitalists as they formed cartels, syndicates and trusts. Salvation lies in monopoly, echoed the political leaders of the bourgeoisie, hastening to appropriate the parts of the world not yet shared out. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fred Hampton: We ain’t gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we’re gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Sudisman: We live in order to struggle, and we struggle in order to live. We live not just for the sake of life alone; we live to defend that life with courage until our hearts cease to beat. From the moment a human being is born, from the first whimper as a baby to the last breath, life is a struggle. Sometimes s/he will face a struggle that is very difficult, sometimes s/he will face a hard-fought battle. Not every such contest is crowned with victory. But the aim of life is to have the courage to enter this hard-fought battle and at the same time win the victory. This is the dream of everyone who struggles, not excluding the Communists. This too is my dream of life. For without dreams, without ideals, life is barren and empty. “What a wonder of wonders in living is life?” To live in order to struggle, to struggler in order to live, that is my communist ambition. And this ambition cannot possibly be conceived without responsibility. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Il est aussi présent dans un ouvrage russe destiné à l'aide à la traduction du russe en français (1981). Cette traduction vient d'ailleurs de cet ouvrage (elle essaye de reproduite le jeu de mot avec "blesse" et "engraisse"):
Gramsci: For several years we Europeans have lived at the expense of the death of the coloured peoples: unconscious vampires that we are, we have fed off their innocent blood. But today flames of revolt are being fanned throughout the colonial world. This is the class struggle of the coloured peoples against their white exploiters and murderers. It is the vast irresistible drive towards autonomy and independence of a whole world, with all its spiritual riches. Connective tissues are being recreated to weld together once again peoples whom European domination seemed to have sundered once and for all. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: While the bourgeois state methodically concentrates all its efforts on doping the urban workers, adapting all the literature published at state expense and at the expense of the tsarist and bourgeois parties for this purpose, we can and must utilise our political power to make the urban worker an effective vehicle of communist ideas among the rural proletariat. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Since there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves in the process of their movement, the only choice is - either bourgeois or socialist ideology. There is no middle course (for mankind has not created a "third" ideology, and, moreover, in a society torn by class antagonisms there can never be a non-class or an above-class ideology). Hence, to belittle the socialist ideology in any way, to turn aside from it in the slightest degree means to strengthen bourgeois ideology. There is much talk of spontaneity. But the spontaneous development of the working-class movement leads to its subordination to bourgeois ideology, to its development along the lines of the Credo programme; for the spontaneous working-class movement is trade-unionism, is Nur-Gewerkschaftlerei, and trade unionism means the ideological enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Extrait de "Torquato Tasso", pièce de théâtre de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1790).
Extrait de "Torquato Tasso" de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1790):
LÉONORE. Espères-tu maintenant agir sur un caractère qui te semblait tout à l'heure impraticable?
ANTONIO. Nous espérons toujours, et en toutes choses il vaut mieux espérer que désespérer; car qui peut calculer ce qui est possible? Il est cher à notre prince, il faut qu'il reste avec nous; et si c'est en vain que nous aurons cherché à le corriger, il ne sera pas le seul dont nous supportions les défauts.
LÉONORE . Je ne te crois pas à ce point affranchi de passion et de partialité! Tu t'es bien vite converti.
ANTONIO. Il faut bien que l'âge ait du moins cette prérogative de savoir s'arrêter à temps , s'il n'a pas réussi à éviter l'erreur. Tu voulais d'abord m'amener à pardonner à ton ami: c'est à présent moi qui t'en prie. Fais ce que tu pourras pour qu'enfin il revienne à lui, et que tout rentre bientôt dans l'ordre accoutumé. J'irai moi-même à sa rencontre, dès que tu m'auras dit qu'il est calmé, que ma présence ne peut plus accroître le mal. Mais ne perds pas de temps: Alphonse repart ce soir, et je dois l'accompagner. En attendant, adieu.
|En toutes choses, il vaut mieux espérer que désespérer.|
Réécriture d'un passage "La République", Livre VIII, de Platon, dialogue socratique rédigé vers 375 avant J.-C. Cet apocryphe anachronique semble remonter à 1969 en France (suite aux évènements de 1968?)
Extrait du Livre VIII de la République de Platon:
Socrate - Je veux dire que le père s'accoutume à traiter son enfant comme son égal, à le craindre même; que celui-ci s'égale à son père et n'a ni respect ni crainte pour les auteurs de ses jours, parce qu'autrement sa liberté en souffrirait; que les citoyens et les simples habitants et les étrangers même aspirent aux mêmes droits. Adimante - C'est bien là ce qui arrive. Socrate - Oui, et il arrive aussi d’autres misères telles que celles-ci. Sous un pareil gouvernement, le maître craint et ménage ses disciples; ceux-ci se moquent de leurs maîtres et de leurs surveillants. En général les jeunes gens veulent aller de pair avec les vieillards, et lutter avec eux en propos et en actions. Les vieillards, de leur côté, descendent aux manières des jeunes gens, en affectent le ton léger et l'esprit badin, et imitent la jeunesse de peur d’avoir l'air fâcheux et despotique. Adimante - Tout-à-fait. Socrate - Mais le dernier excès de la liberté dans un État populaire, c'est quand les esclaves de l'un et de l'autre sexe ne sont pas moins libres que ceux qui les ont achetés. Et nous allions presque oublier de dire jusqu'où vont l'égalité et la liberté dans les rapports des femmes et des hommes. Adimante - Et pourquoi donc ne dirions-nous pas, selon l'expression d'Eschyle, Tout ce qui nous vient maintenant à la bouche? [On ignore à quelle tragédie d'Eschyle appartient ce vert qui était passé en proverbe.] Socrate - Sans doute, et c'est aussi ce que je fais. Il n'est pas jusqu'aux animaux à l'usage des hommes qui en vérité ne soient là plus libres que partout ailleurs; c'est à ne pas le croire, si on ne l'a pas vu. Des petites chiennes y sont tout comme leurs maîtresses, suivant le proverbe; les chevaux et les ânes, accoutumés à une allure fière et libre, s'en vont heurter ceux qu'ils rencontrent, si on ne leur cède le passage. Et ainsi du reste; tout y respire la liberté. Adimante - Tu me racontes mon propre songe. Je ne vais jamais à la campagne, que cela ne m'arrive. Socrate - Or, vois-tu le résultat de tout ceci, combien les citoyens en deviennent ombrageux, au point de s'indigner et de se soulever à la moindre apparence de contrainte? Ils en viennent à la fin, comme tu sais, jusqu'à ne tenir aucun compte des lois écrites ou non écrites, afin de n'avoir absolument aucun maître. Adimante - Je le sais parfaitement. Socrate - Eh bien, mon cher ami, c'est de ce jeune et beau gouvernement que naît la tyrannie, du moins à ce que je pense.
|Lorsque les pères s’habituent à laisser faire les enfants, lorsque les fils ne tiennent plus compte de leurs paroles, lorsque les maîtres tremblent devant leurs élèves et préfèrent les flatter, lorsque finalement les jeunes méprisent les lois...|
Felix Dzerzhinsky: One must not fear criticism, or gloss over shortcomings; on the contrary, it is necessary to help to make them known and to see nothing discreditable in doing so. Only he can be discredited who conceals his shortcomings (..), that is, precisely the man who ought to be discredited. It is necessary to be able to see the truth and to imbibe it from the masses and from all who are taking part in production. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Victor Hugo: Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky: Religion acts as a bandage over the eyes of man, preventing him from seeing the world as it is. It is our task to tear off this bandage and to teach the masses of workers and peasants to see things correctly, to understand what does exist and what does not, so as to be able to rebuild this world to fit the needs of the workers and peas- ants. We must, therefore, convince the masses that communism and religion cannot go together, that it is not possible to be a communist and at the same time believe in devils or gods, in heavenly creatures, in the Virgin Mary, in the saints, in pious princes and princesses, bishops and landowners, who have been canonized by the priests. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Langston Hughes: The daily papers picture the Bolsheviks as the greatest devils on earth, but I couldn’t see how they could be so bad if they had done away with race hatred and landlords – two evils that I knew first hand. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Louis T. McFadden: The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the International bankers. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Jefferson: If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: Do not be afraid to lose; to gain something you have to lose something. And remember; you are defeated not when you lose, but when you quit. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bible: Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ray Bradbury: So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
