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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


Cesare Beccaria: The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Karl Marx: We see then, that, apart from extremely elastic bounds, the nature of the exchange of commodities itself imposes no limit to the working-day, no limit to surplus-labour. The capitalist maintains his rights as a purchaser when he tries to make the working-day as long as possible, and to make, whenever possible, two working-days out of one. On the other hand, the peculiar nature of the commodity sold implies a limit to its consumption by the purchaser, and the labourer maintains his right as seller when he wishes to reduce the working-day to one of definite normal duration. There is here, therefore, an antinomy, right against right, both equally bearing the seal of the law of exchanges. Between equal rights force decides. Hence is it that in the history of capitalist production, the determination of what is a working-day, presents itself as the result of a struggle, a struggle between collective capital, i.e., the class of capitalists, and collective labour, i.e., the working-class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Friedrich Engels: It is to the capitalist's interest to make the working day as long as possible. The longer it is, the more surplus value it produces. The worker correctly feels that every hour of labour which he performs over and above the replacement of the wage is unjustly taken from him; he learns from bitter personal experience what it means to work excessive hours. The capitalist fights for his profit, the worker for his health, for a few hours of daily rest, to be able to engage in other human activities as well, besides working, sleeping and eating. It may be remarked in passing that it does not depend at all upon the good will of the individual capitalists whether they desire to embark on this struggle or not, since competition compels even the most philanthropic among us to join his colleagues and to make a working time as long as theirs the rule. wordsmith.social/protestation/…



Che Guevara: Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians, but rather it lies in the right of the citizens to determine their own destiny. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Stalin: Contrary to metaphysics, dialectics does not regard the process of development as a simple process of growth, where quantitative changes do not lead to qualitative changes, but as a development which passes from insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes to open' fundamental changes' to qualitative changes; a development in which the qualitative changes occur not gradually, but rapidly and abruptly, taking the form of a leap from one state to another; they occur not accidentally but as the natural result of an accumulation of imperceptible and gradual quantitative changes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Stalin: Contrary to metaphysics, dialectics holds that internal contradictions are inherent in all things and phenomena of nature, for they all have their negative and positive sides, a past and a future, something dying away and something developing; and that the struggle between these opposites, the struggle between the old and the new, between that which is dying away and that which is being born, between that which is disappearing and that which is developing, constitutes the internal content of the process of development, the internal content of the transformation of quantitative changes into qualitative changes. The dialectical method therefore holds that the process of development from the lower to the higher takes place not as a harmonious unfolding of phenomena, but as a disclosure of the contradictions inherent in things and phenomena, as a "struggle" of opposite tendencies which operate on the basis of these contradictions. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Stalin: It is easy to understand how immensely important is the extension of the principles of the dialectical method to the study of social life and the history of society, and how immensely important is the application of these principles to the history of society and to the practical activities of the party of the proletariat. If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluated not from the standpoint of "eternal justice" or some other preconceived idea, as is not infrequently done by historians, but from the standpoint of the conditions which gave rise to that system or that social movement and with which they are connected. The slave system would be senseless, stupid and unnatural under modern conditions. But under the conditions of a disintegrating primitive communal system, the slave system is a quite understandable and natural phenomenon, since it represents an advance on the primitive communal system. wordsmith.social/protestation/…




Karl Marx: Our task is that of ruthless criticism, and much more against ostensible friends than against open enemies; and in maintaining this our position we gladly forego cheap democratic popularity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Gerhart Eisler: Since the moment for butchery had arrived, the Nazis seized the opportunity to do away with other adversaries of Hitler from the most diverse circles. Thus General von Schleicher and his wife, General von Bredow, and several leading Catholics were assassinated. Von Papen himself barely escaped a similar fate. Hitler had checked the danger of the 'second revolution.' Big business, the generals, and Hindenburg personally congratulated him. By moving swiftly and relentlessly against the Storm Troop leaders he had removed the possibility of a conflict between the Reichswehr and the Nazi private army, a conflict which might have been exploited by various other adversaries of the government. He had shown the stupid petty bourgeoisie, who had taken his demagogic promises seriously, who was master of Germany. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Jonathan Swift: When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


James Baldwin: I’m not anti-Semitic at all, but I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe they have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns on biblical injunction. wordsmith.social/protestation/…




Mao Zedong: Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Che Guevara: There are no borders in this fight to the death. We cannot remain indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world. A victory of any country over imperialism is a victory for us, just as the defeat of any nation is a defeat for all. wordsmith.social/protestation/…



Enver Hoxha: By denigrating Stalin and the social system for which he fought and worked throughout his life, reaction and all the anti-communist scum wanted to destroy not only the greatest and most powerful base of socialism, the revolution was not conquered, Marxism-Leninism was not eliminated, and socialism was not snuffed out. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


George Habash: The enemy can destroy our cities and refugee camps, kill our women and children, leave no brick on top of another—but he can't kill our desire to fight back. wordsmith.social/protestation/…







Heinrich Lauenstein


Heinrich Lauenstein (né le 28 septembre 1835 à Hüddessum, mort le 16 mai 1910 à Düsseldorf) est un peintre prussien.

Avant d'aller à l'académie des beaux-arts de Düsseldorf en 1859, Lauenstein est peintre décorateur. Il étudie ensuite auprès de Heinrich Mücke, Andreas Müller, Karl Müller, Karl Ferdinand Sohn et Rudolf Wiegmann. En juin 1863, il rejoint la classe de peinture d'histoire et de genre, devient l'élève d'Eduard Bendemann et à l'automne 1867 d'Ernst Deger. En 1864, il est nommé professeur assistant en classe élémentaire qu'il dirigera en 1881. En 1897, il est professeur de peinture d'histoire et religieuse à l'académie des beaux-arts de Düsseldorf ; il y a notamment pour élève Johann Georg Dreydorff.

Lauenstein est fortement influencé par les nazaréens de Düsseldorf. Il vient à la peinture religieuse et historique grâce à Ernst Deger qui établit une nouvelle génération dans ce genre. Lauenstein aide Andreas Müller pour les fresques du musée ouvert en 1867 au château de Sigmaringen, vingt-six portraits de peintres et sculpteurs du Moyen Âge. En outre, Lauenstein fait plusieurs retables pour les églises néo-gothiques, en particulier à Düsseldorf et dans la Rhénanie.

En plus des œuvres sacrées, Lauenstein est connu pour des portraits et des scènes d'enfants.



Otto von Bismarck: Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of the time decided — that was the error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood. wordsmith.social/protestation/…



Alexander Rossi


Alexander Mark Rossi (1840 - 9 janvier 1916) était un artiste britannique spécialisé dans les œuvres de genre qui s'est épanoui à la fin du 19e siècle.

Il est né sur l'île grecque de Corfou, fils du Dr Mark Rossi, un Italien qui était l'un des trois juges présidant les îles Ioniennes à l'époque de la domination britannique. Lors d'une visite à Preston, en Angleterre, en 1866, Rossi a rencontré et épousé Jane Gillow. Il reste ensuite au Royaume-Uni. Dans les années 1870, il s'installe à Londres.

Entre 1871 et 1903, Rossi expose 66 œuvres à la Royal Academy et est également membre du Hogarth Club. Nombre de ses peintures représentent des enfants et de jeunes adultes, les modèles étant souvent des membres de sa propre famille. Son tableau le plus connu est peut-être Livres interdits (1897)[2].

Après la mort de sa première femme, il épouse Silvia Tassart en 1902. Il meurt à Golders Green, Londres, le 9 janvier 1916.

Note : Certaines maisons d'art britanniques indiquent par erreur les dates de naissance et de décès de Rossi comme étant 1870-1903, mais il s'agit en fait des dates auxquelles il était actif sur la scène artistique londonienne.




Agathe Röstel


Agathe Röstel (1868-1926) est considérée comme une peintre de genre académique romantique de l'école allemande. Elle est née à Munich, en Allemagne. La confusion concernant l'orthographe du nom d'Agathe (Röstel ou Roestel) a rendu difficile la détermination de ses dates de naissance et de décès.

Pour ajouter à la confusion, elle a signé ses premières œuvres A. Röstel et ses dernières œuvres A. Roestel. L'autre facteur contribuant à cette confusion est le fait que, comme d'autres femmes artistes du XIXe siècle, elle a tenté de cacher son sexe. Les femmes de cette période cachaient généralement leur sexe face aux préjugés inéluctables des jurys du Salon et des mécènes à l'encontre des femmes qui concouraient dans un monde dominé par les hommes.

Roestel est une peintre incroyable. Elle capture la beauté et l'innocence des enfants avec une fluidité et une aisance que l'on trouve rarement chez une artiste aussi jeune. Agathe a le génie de raconter des histoires avec ses peintures en capturant les enfants dans leur vie quotidienne.