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  1. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2019 23:44:24 PDT Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    Joel Skousen: There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes10/#quotenr6839
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      • Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. (Stalin)

      • The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that has no national boundaries. (Che Guevara)

      • For capitalist countries war is just as natural and legitimate a condition of things as the exploitation of the working class. (Stalin)

      • The real grand corruption is in the [capitalist] system, itself. (Glen Ford)

      • The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution — particularly the Socialist idea — is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. (Emma Goldman)

      • We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. (Edward Bernays)

      • Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront. (Stalin)

      • This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas. (Edward Bernays)

      • In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. (Thích Nhất Hạnh)

      • The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. (David Ricardo)

      • By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. (Benjamin Netanyahu)

      • We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. (Simón Bolívar)

      • It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (André Gide)

      • There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it. (Vladimir Jabotinsky)

      • When Stalin was still alive, I saw things differently, but as I look back over this century, I can state that Stalin was the greatest individual of this century, the greatest political genius. To adopt a scientific attitude about someone is quite different from one’s personal attitude. (Alexander Zinoviev)

      • If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records. (Kurt Cobain)

      • Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated. (Che Guevara)

      • Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. (Goethe)

      • Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)

      • While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • The Revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will be no rerun, brothers. The Revolution — will be live. (Gilbert Scott-Heron)

      • As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected … before a drop of blood was shed. (John Adams)

      • None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)

      • If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. (Henry Ford)

      • Give me liberty or give me death. (Patrick Henry)

      • Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real. (C. Wright Mills)

      • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves. Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever of power, much money—these impotent ones! See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss. Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth. Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they all smell to me, these idolaters. My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the steam of these human sacrifices! Open still remaineth the earth for great souls. Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of tranquil seas. Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty! (Nietzsche)

      • The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. (Plátōn)

      • Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (Lenin)

      • In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Tell the children the truth. (Bob Marley)

      • They got money for wars, but wont feed the poor. (Tupac Shakur)

      • When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Revolution is not an action, it is a process. (Huey P. Newton)

      • I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Aldous Huxley)

      • The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings can change their lives. (William James)

      • The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit. (Sir Josiah Stamp)

      • One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)

      • When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • When even one American — who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. (Harry Truman)

      • When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. (Gore Vidal)

      • An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. (Goethe)

      • The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. (William Colby)

      • The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. (Dwight Eisenhower)

      • The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty… are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. (Patrick Henry)

      • The perfect totalitarian state is one where the all powerful political bosses and their army of managers, control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)

      • I think that on balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)

      • Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. (George Orwell)

      • Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues! (Fidel Castro)

      • The revolution is not about putting a different kind of person in power but a different kind of power in people. (Stephanie Van Hook)

      • They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. (Mao Zedong)

      • Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. (Lenin)

      • History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. (Karl Marx)

      • Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. (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. (Karl Marx)

      • I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin. (Che Guevara)

      • It comes down to the ability to expropriate others’ labor. (Robert Bettinger)

      • It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity. (Lenin)

      • I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. (Paul Robeson)

      • Every class struggle is a political struggle. (Lenin)

      • What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)

      • All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)

      • Corporations are in a sense moral monsters; we say they behave as such and we are disposed to treat them as such. The standard of international morality, particularly in matters of commercial intercourse, is on a still lower level. (John A. Hobson)

      • Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. (Lenin)

      • For us, those veterans who fought in that ferocious war – and the Soviet Union made great sacrifices, for it offered over 26 million martyrs, and as far as we know the number was closer to 30 million – were the main force; and today they offer a role model for the present generation and for future generations. They provide a role model of resilience and standing fast. Who could expect the siege of Stalingrad at that time to end the way it did without the steadfastness of those heroes? Who could expect that the initial retreat of the Soviet army would turn into a victory later? Without the victory of the Soviet Union, the Normandy landings for Western states wouldn’t have been possible. This is what many in the West are trying to obscure, i.e. the more important role played by the peoples of the Soviet Union at that time – including your people – in defeating Nazism. Today, these veterans play a vital role in strengthening the spirit of steadfastness, because you too are facing something similar to what Syria has been facing for decades. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. (Robert McChesney)

      • Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing “rogue states, ” opposing “Islamic fundamentalism, ” or containing China. (Walden Bello)

      • I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. (Albert Einstein)

      • The state…. must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may no it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space. (Moshe Sharett)

      • Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. (Theodore Herzl)

      • We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. (Paul Warburg)

      • The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission – founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller – and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens. (Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl)

      • There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. (Joel Skousen)

      • The first casualty when war comes is the truth. (Hiram Johnson)

      • The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations’ favor. The consequence is a “race to the bottom” in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate. (Jeremy Brecher)

      • The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whomever does not. (William Dugger)

      • Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment. (Edward Herman)

      • … the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of “investor friendly” regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights. (Edward Herman)

      • The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. (Thomas Friedman)

      • … the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. (Noam Chomsky)

      • All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it… Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. (Hitler)

      • The reader will understand that I despise these “yellows”; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called “respectable” papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the “New York Tribune” and the “Boston Evening Transcript” and the “Baltimore Sun, ” which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are “kept” papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term “respectability” in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the “yellow” journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser. (Upton Sinclair)

      • The rich Jews, just like the rich Russians and the rich of all countries, are united in trampling upon, oppressing and dividing the workers. (R. F. Andrews)

      • 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. (Mao Zedong)

      • Reforms are concessions obtained from a ruling class that retains its rule. Revolution is the overthrow of the ruling class. (Lenin)

      • 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. (Kim Philby)

      • Because the pseudo-Lefts are compelled to gloss over facts which reveal their, the “Lefts”, responsibility for sowing illusions which actually helped the German imperialists and hindered the growth and development of the revolution in Germany. (Lenin)

      • Soviet, or socialist, democracy sweeps aside the pompous, bullying, words, declares ruthless war on the hypocrisy of the “democrats”, the landlords, capitalists or well-fed peasants who are making money by selling their surplus bread to hungry workers at profiteering prices. (Lenin)

      • The essence of a U.S.A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph. (George Jackson)

      • In all countries, the Trotskyists give themselves fine names in order to mask their dirty work and banditry. For example: in Spain they call themselves the United Marxist Workers Party (POUM). Do you know that it’s they who constitute the nests of spies in Madrid in Barcelona and in other places in the service of Franco? (Ho Chi Minh)

      • Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t even know where north or south is. If you don’t eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you’re lost in a forest, not knowing anything. (Fidel Castro)

      • Before we can unite, and in order that we may unite, we must first of all draw firm and definite lines of demarcation. (Lenin)

      • Under no circumstances must we underrate fascism’s power of ideological infection. On the contrary, we for our part must develop an extensive ideological struggle based on clear, popular arguments and a correct, well thought out approach to the peculiarities of the national psychology of the masses of the people. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Tolstoy)

      • Dialectics is the teaching which shows how Opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical,—under what conditions they are identical, becoming transformed into one another,—why the human mind should grasp these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, becoming transformed into one another. (Lenin)

      • Down with this contemptible fraud! There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be “equality” between the oppressed and the oppressors, between the exploited and the exploiters. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real “freedom” as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital, and no freedom for the toiling peasants from the yoke of the capitalists, landlords and merchants. (Lenin)

      • If one looks into the genealogies of many ‘old families,’ one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor — backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. ‘Old money’ is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession. (Michael Parenti)

      • In the name of peace they waged the wars. Ain’t they got no shame? (Nikki Giovanni)

      • The Soviet state is the historically integrated form of the state during the transition period from capitalism to communism. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism…. These organisations (ie Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins. (Stalin)

      • The capitalists, the bourgeoisie, can at “best” put off the victory of socialism in one country or another at the cost of slaughtering further hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants. But they cannot save capitalism. The Soviet Republic has come to take the place of capitalism, the Republic which gives power to the working people and only to the working people, which entrusts the proletariat with the guidance of their liberation, which abolishes private property in land, factories and other means of production, because this private property is the source of the exploitation of the many by the few, the source of mass poverty, the source of predatory wars between nations, wars that enrich only the capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Tu put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependance among the vassels, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • I believe we should do things honestly, for without an honest attitude it is absolutely impossible to accomplish anything in this world. Which are the honest people? Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin are honest, men of science are honest. Which are the dishonest people? Trotsky, Bukharin, Chen Tu-hsiu and Chang Kuo-tao are extremely dishonest… (Mao Zedong)

      • Fascism is able to count on the assistance of the greater part of the State forces, of the higher army staffs, of the police authorities, and of the lawcourts and magistracy, who exert all their force to crush working-class opposition, while treating Fascist illegality with open connivance (banning of the Red Front alongside permission of the Storm Troops). Finally, has Fascism “conquered power” from the bourgeois state dictatorship? Fascism has never “conquered power” in any country. In every case Fascism has been placed in power from above by the bourgeois dictatorship. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Educate ourselves, educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. (Julius Nyerere)

      • The coloured people of Cardiff are mainly communists simply because no one else has seen fit to give them a helping hand. (Harold Moody)

      • There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. (Albert Einstein)

      • Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can’t afford to let it in. We have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. (Al Capone)

      • The scientific conclusions of Malthus are “considerate” towards the ruling classes in general and towards the reactionary elements of the ruling classes in particular; in other words he falsifies science for these interests, But his conclusions are ruthless as far as they concern the subjugated classes. He is not only ruthless; he affects ruthlessness; he takes a cynical pleasure in it and exaggerates his conclusions in so far as they are directed against the poor wretches, even beyond the point which would be scientifically justified from his point of view. (Karl Marx)

      • Now more clearly than ever, the CIA, with its related institutions, is exposed as an agency of destabilization and repression. Throughout its history, it has organized secret wars that killed millions of people in the Third World who had no capability of doing physical harm to the United States. (John Stockwell)

      • In our day and generation there is only one class which can be depended upon for consistent revolutionary action. That class is the working class. (James Connolly)

      • Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)

      • During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). (Lenin)

      • Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition. (Albert Einstein)

      • Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only HUMAN. We of the Socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all. (James Connolly)

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  3. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2019 23:09:12 PDT Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
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    George Kennan: We have about 60% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its' population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes9/#quotenr6838
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      • Dialectical logic is loyal to the contradictions, not by the reasoning of “on the one hand and the other” but by tracing the contradictions to their fractured source. (Russell Jacoby)

      • Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen. (Golda Meir)

      • This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument. (Herbert Marcuse)

      • Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. (Umberto Eco)

      • Everyone was at one time a Social Democrat. (Hitler)

      • (The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • The real task of knowing is, through perception, to arrive at thought, to arrive step by step at the comprehension of the internal contradictions of objective things, of their laws and of the internal relations between one process and another, that is, to arrive at logical knowledge. To repeat, logical knowledge differs from perceptual knowledge in that perceptual knowledge pertains to the separate aspects, the phenomena and the external relations of things, whereas logical knowledge takes a big stride forward to reach the totality, the essence and the internal relations of things and discloses the inner contradictions in the surrounding world. Therefore, logical knowledge is capable of grasping the development of the surrounding world in its totality, in the internal relations of all its aspects. This dialectical-materialist theory of the process of development of knowledge, basing itself on practice and proceeding from the shallower to the deeper, was never worked out by anybody before the rise of Marxism. Marxist materialism solved this problem correctly for the first time, pointing out both materialistically and dialectically the deepening movement of cognition, the movement by which man in society progresses from perceptual knowledge to logical knowledge in his complex, constantly recurring practice of production and class struggle. (Mao Zedong)

      • LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution. (David Ricardo)

      • When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people. (Lenin)

      • Every German who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Germans are harmless. Therefore, if I kill a German, I am saving lives. (Lyudmila Pavlichenko)

      • Mr. Churchill and his friends bear a striking resemblance to Hitler and his friends. (Stalin)

      • The victory of the Chinese people’s revolution is absolutely inseparable from Comrade Stalin’s unceasing care, leadership, and support of over thirty years. Since the victory of the Chinese people’s revolution, Comrade Stalin and the people and government of the Soviet Union, under his leadership, have rendered generous and selfless assistance to the Chinese people’s cause of construction. Such a great and profound friendship as that which Comrade Stalin had for the Chinese people will be forever remembered with gratitude by the Chinese people. The immortal beacon of Comrade Stalin will forever illuminate the path on which the Chinese people march forward. (Mao Zedong)

      • We consider the Trotskyist party to be acting against the revolution. (Che Guevara)

      • …I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present. (Henry Steele Commager)

      • This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • A constitution imperilled justifies revolution. (Edward Counsel)

      • The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. (G. W. F. Hegel)

      • You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker. (Malcolm X)

      • Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. (Malcolm X)

      • Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. (Lenin)

      • All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. (Henry Ellis)

      • We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Revolution is not a one time event. (Audre Lorde)

      • Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! (Bob Marley)

      • It is easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (Yēšū́aʿ)

      • Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism. (Georges Bernanos)

      • It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

      • All men recognize the right of revolution; to refuse allegiance to the govt when its tyranny is great & unendurable. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. (Edmund Burke)

      • The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. (Marie-Henri Beyle)

      • If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be… The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. (Patrick Henry)

      • We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. (George Orwell)

      • Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. (Howard Zinn)

      • Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence. (Henri Frederic Amiel)

      • When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. (Sinclair Lewis)

      • The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. (Camus)

      • Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy. (Justice William O. Douglas)

      • One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. (Nietzsche)

      • Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (Aldous Huxley)

      • Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal)

      • There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. (General Smedley Butler)

      • I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. (Fidel Castro)

      • I would rather die standing than live on my knees! (Zapata)

      • The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America’s power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples. (Henry Kissinger)

      • In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. (Karl Marx)

      • Nelson Mandela is a terrorist. (Margaret Thatcher)

      • Where speculation ends – in real life – there real, positive science begins: the representation of the practical activity, of the practical process of development of men. (Karl Marx)

      • The mass media are class media. (Michael Parenti)

      • The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. (Karl Marx)

      • Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes. (Mussolini)

      • Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. (Proudhon)

      • Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

      • For the workers’ and peasants’ government, freedom of the press means liberation of the press from capitalist oppression, and public ownership of paper mills and printing presses; equal right for public groups of a certain size (say, numbering 10, 000) to a fair share of newsprint stocks and a corresponding quantity of printers’ labour. (Lenin)

      • The superstructures of civil society are like the trench-systems of modern warfare. (Gramsci)

      • Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. (Lenin)

      • All that glitters is not gold. There is much glitter and sound in Trotsky’s phrases, but they are meaningless. (Lenin)

      • Lenin and Stalin have evidenced their outstanding brilliance as mass leaders in every revolutionary requirement: in Marxian theory, political strategy, the building of mass organizations, and in the development of the mass struggle. The characteristic feature of their work is its many-sidedness. Both men of action as well as of thought, they have exemplified in their activities that coordination of theory and practice which is so indispensable to the success of the every-day struggles of the masses and the final establishment of socialism. Both have worked in the clearest realization of the twin truths that there can be no revolutionary movement without revolutionary theory, and that revolutionary theory unsupported by organized mass struggle must remain sterile. (William Z. Foster)

      • American fascism is trying to direct the disillusionment and discontent of these masses into reactionary fascist channels. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • … the NSS [National Security State] is an instrument of class warfare, organized and designed to permit an elite, local and multinational, to operate without any constraint from democratic processes. This allows the bulk of the population to be treated as a mere cost of production. (Edward Herman)

      • Terrorism has become a sort of screen created since the end of the Cold War by policymakers in Washington … It is fabricated to keep the population afraid and insecure, and to justify what the United States wishes to do globally. (Edward Said)

      • …the CIA has overthrown functioning democracies in over 20 countries. (John Stockwell)

      • Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial. (Ariel Sharon)

      • The anti-Semites will become our most loyal friends, the anti-Semite nations will become our allies. (Theodore Herzl)

      • We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own. (Maurice Samuels)

      • Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. (Mark Twain)

      • We have about 60% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its’ population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better. (George Kennan)

      • … there is a system of terroristic states — the real terror network — that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World. (Edward Herman)

      • The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package — the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity — must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug. (Edward Herman)

      • Liberties are not given; they are taken. (Aldous Huxley)

      • The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers. (Edward Herman)

      • If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. (Howard Zinn)

      • They made a wasteland and called it peace. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans. (Hermann Hesse)

      • Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal…. Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you’re not a good soldier. (Curtis LeMay)

      • Marxism-Leninism is not a dogma, it is a guide to action and a creative theory. So, Marxism-Leninism can display its indestructible vitality only when it is applied creatively to suit the specific conditions of each country. The same applies to the experience of the fraternal parties. It will prove valuable to us only when we make a study of it, grasp its essence and properly apply it to our realities. (Kim Il Sung)

      • To betray, you must first belong. (Kim Philby)

      • Trotsky unites all to whom ideological decay is dear, all who are not concerned with the defence of Marxism; all philistines who do not understand the reasons for the struggle and who do not wish to learn, think, and discover the ideological roots of the divergence of views. At this time of confusion, disintegration, and wavering it is easy for Trotsky to become the “hero of the hour” and gather all the shabby elements around himself, The more openly this attempt is made, the more spectacular will be the defeat. (Lenin)

      • The fascist arrangement has attempted to create the illusion of a mass society in which the traditional capitalist ruling class would continue to play its leading role. (George Jackson)

      • The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened during the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe. (Frank Zappa)

      • In politics, never retreat, never retract and never admit a mistake. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • Wars are made to make debt. (Ezra Pound)

      • The reality of Fascism is the violent attempt of decaying capitalism to defeat the proletarian revolution and forcibly arrest the growing contradictions of its whole development. All the rest is decoration and stage-play, whether conscious or unconscious, to cover and make presentable or attractive this basic reactionary aim, which cannot be openly stated without defeating its purpose. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term. (Lenin)

      • The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces. (Michael Parenti)

      • I will never apologize for the United States — never, ever! I don’t care what the facts are… I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy. (George W. Bush)

      • Our mills and factories are being run without capitalists. The work is directed by men and women of the people. That is what we call socialism in practice. In our fields the tillers of the land work without landlords and without kulaks. The work is directed by men and women of the people. That is what we call socialism in daily life, that is what we call a free, socialist life. (Stalin)

      • Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The proletarian state is a special form of leadership of the remaining masses of toilers by the proletariat. For precisely this reason it represents the highest form of democracy possible in a class society. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • From the point of view of Marxism, that is, of modern scientific socialism, the main issue in any discussion by socialists on how to assess the war and what attitude to adopt towards it is this: what is the war being waged for, and what classes staged and directed it. We Marxists do not belong to that category of people who are unqualified opponents of all war. We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. But in the war to win that socialist system of society we are bound to encounter conditions under which the class struggle within each given nation may come up against a war between the different nations, a war conditioned by this very class struggle. Therefore, we cannot rule out the possibility of revolutionary wars, i.e., wars arising from the class struggle, wars waged by revolutionary classes, wars which are of direct and immediate revolutionary significance. (Lenin)

      • The gigantic progress of technology in general, and of means of transport in particular, and the tremendous growth of capital and banks have resulted in capitalism becoming mature and over mature. It has outlived itself. It has become the most reactionary hindrance to human progress. It has become reduced to the absolute power of a handful of millionaires and multimillionaires who send whole nations into a bloodbath to decide whether the German or the Anglo-French group of plunderers is to obtain the spoils of imperialism, power over the colonies, financial “spheres of influence” or “mandates to rule”, etc. (Lenin)

      • This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. (Stalin)

      • If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. (Malcolm X)

      • Those who take the meat from the table teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss call ruling too difficult for ordinary men. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • By sowing chaos in Russia we imperceptibly replace their values with false ones, which will force them to believe. How? We’ll find our accomplices, helpers and allies in Russia herself. In a series of episodes, a tragedy, grandiose in scale, will be played out: the demise of the last unbroken nation on earth, the final irrevocable extinguishment of their national self-consciousness. From art and literature, for example, we’ll gradually exterminate the social element. We’ll retrain artists, discourage in them the desire to depict the world and examine those processes taking place in the masses of the people. Literature, the theatre and the cinema will all proclaim the basest of human feelings. We shall use all our means to support and promote those so-called creators who will hammer into the people’s consciousness the cult of sex, violence, sadism, and betrayal, in a word — immorality. (Allen Dulles)

      • Stalin is the leader of the world revolution. This is of paramount importance. It is a great event that mankind is blessed with Stalin. Since we have him, things can go well. As you all know, Marx is dead and so are Engels and Lenin. Had there been no Stalin, who would there be to give directions? But having him – this is really a blessing. Now there exists in the world a Soviet Union, a Communist Party and also a Stalin. Thus the affairs of the world can go well. (Mao Zedong)

      • We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • Napoleon, according to the memoirs of Chaptal, feared the slightest unrest among the workers more than a lost battle. But Napoleon had neither to deal with the modem conditions of mechanised production, nor with the modern working-class movement. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The growth of production in every direction, whether of foodstuffs, raw materials or manufactures, has thus greatly exceeded the growth of world population. And the increase of productive power, which has only been partially and incompletely used under capitalist conditions, with many artificial limitations and restrictions, has been in reality enormously greater than the actual growth of production. But this gigantic increase of productive power has outstripped the capacity of capitalism to organise it. The outcome of this gigantic increase of productive power has been world crisis, stagnation and closing down of production, mass unemployment, mass impoverishment and the lowering of standards, on a scale without parallel since the beginning of capitalism, accompanied by growing social and political disturbance and recurrent war. This problem is the basic problem confronting present-day society. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Social Democracy has thus throughout the world shown itself ready to adapt itself and enter into alliance with every counterrevolutionary, White Terrorist and Fascist Government, even entering directly into such Governments. Where Social Democracy has not been accepted into such open alliance, but has been forced under the carrying out its role of disruption of the working class under the form of opposition, this has not been for lack of trying on the part of the Social Democratic leadership, who have invariably exhausted every manoeuvre to endeavour to be admitted to the favoured circle under the protection of Fascism. The signal example of the latter process has been Germany. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Behind the ranting megalomaniacs, bullies, drug-fiends and broken down bohemians who constitute the outer façade of Fascism, the business heads of finance-capital who pay the costs and pull the strings are perfectly cool, clear and intelligent. And it is with the real system of Fascism in this sense, rather than with the imaginary ideology created to gull the innocent, that we are here concerned. The second, the professed fantastic ideology, is only of importance in relation to the first, the real working system for the maintenance of capitalism in conditions of extreme crisis and weakening. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of unanimity. Reaching out to many people who think “like everyone else”, creating an impression of unanimity. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The so-called “defense” corporations are multinational conglomerates that have no great loyalty to the United States; they are in fact no longer U.S. corporations but transnational entities loyal only to themselves. (John Stockwell)

      • A revolution will only be achieved when the ordinary people of the world, us, the working class, get up off our knees and take back what is rightfully ours. (James Connolly)

      • A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough? Therefore, either one of two things: either the anti-authoritarians don’t know what they’re talking about, in which case they are creating nothing but confusion; or they do know, and in that case they are betraying the movement of the proletariat. In either case they serve the reaction. (Karl Marx)

      • Earlier, the bourgeoisie, as the heads of nations, were for the rights and independence of nations and put that “above all.” Now there is no trace left of this “national principle.” Now the bourgeoisie sell the rights and independence of their nations for dollars. The banner of national independence and national sovereignty has been thrown overboard. Without doubt, you, the representatives of the communist and democratic parties must raise this banner and carry it forward if you want to be patriots of your countries, if you want to be the leading powers of the nations. There is nobody else to raise it. (Stalin)

      • In our view it is a class struggle between the massive proletarian working class and the small, minority ruling class. Working-class people of all colors must unite against the exploitative, oppressive ruling class. So let me emphasize again-we believe our fight is a class struggle and not a race struggle. (Bobby Seale)

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    Thomas Woodrow Wilson: We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes8/#quotenr6837
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      • If you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it. (Julius Caesar)

      • [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat. (Yitzhak Rabin)

      • The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. (Lenin)

      • If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation (Russia). Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed. (Hitler)

      • The proof of Communism does not lie in a theory; it lies in the facts of the world around us. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Struggle against imperialism that is not closely linked with the struggle against opportunism is either an empty phrase or a fraud. (Lenin)

      • Leninism grew up and took shape under the conditions of imperialism, when the contradictions of capitalism had reached an extreme point, when the proletarian revolution had become an immediate practical question, when the old period of preparation of the working class for revolution had arrived at and passed into a new period, that of direct assault on capitalism. Lenin called imperialism “moribund capitalism.” Why? Because imperialism carries the contradictions of capitalism to their last bounds, to the extreme limit, beyond which revolution begins. Of these contradictions, there are three which must be regarded as the most important. The first contradiction is the contradiction between labour and capital. Imperialism is the omnipotence of the monopolist trusts and syndicates, of the banks and the financial oligarchy, in the industrial countries. In the fight against this omnipotence, the customary methods of the working class-trade unions and cooperatives, parliamentary parties and the parliamentary struggle-have proved to be totally inadequate. Either place yourself at the mercy of capital, eke out a wretched existence as of old and sink lower and lower, or adopt a new weapon-this is the alternative imperialism puts before the vast masses of the proletariat. Imperialism brings the working class to revolution. The second contradiction is the contradiction among the various financial groups and imperialist Powers in their struggle for sources of raw materials, for foreign territory. Imperialism is the export of capital to the sources of raw materials, the frenzied struggle for monopolist possession of these sources, the struggle for a re-division of the already divided world, a struggle waged with particular fury by new financial groups and Powers seeking a “place in the sun” against the old groups and Powers, which cling tenaciously to what they have seized. This frenzied struggle among the various groups of capitalists is notable in that it includes as an inevitable element imperialist wars, wars for the annexation of foreign territory. This circumstance, in its turn, is notable in that it leads to the mutual weakening of the imperialists, to the weakening of the position of capitalism in general, to the acceleration of the advent of the proletarian revolution and to the practical necessity of this revolution. The third contradiction is the contradiction between the handful of ruling, “civilised” nations and the hundreds of millions of the colonial and dependent peoples of the world. Imperialism is the most barefaced exploitation and the most inhumane oppression of hundreds of millions of people inhabiting vast colonies and dependent countries. The purpose of this exploitation and of this oppression is to squeeze out super-profits. But in exploiting these countries imperialism is compelled to build these railways, factories and mills, industrial and commercial centers. The appearance of a class of proletarians, the emergence of a native intelligentsia, the awakening of national consciousness, the growth of the liberation movement-such are the inevitable results of this “policy.” The growth of the revolutionary movement in all colonies and dependent countries without exception clearly testifies to this fact. This circumstance is of importance for the proletariat inasmuch as it saps radically the position of capitalism by converting the colonies and dependent countries from reserves of imperialism into reserves of the proletarian revolution. (Stalin)

      • Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. (Karl Marx)

      • Long-haired preachers come out every night,\ Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;\ But when asked how ’bout something to eat\ They will answer with voices so sweet:\ You will eat, bye and bye,\ In that glorious land above the sky;\ Work and pray, live on hay,\ You’ll get pie in the sky when you die. (Joe Hill)

      • I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize! (Joe Hill)

      • Any fool can know. The point is to understand. (Albert Einstein)

      • Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. (Albert Einstein)

      • Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)

      • I am not only the conqueror but also the executor of Marxism. (Hitler)

      • We thank Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. This weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. (Mao Zedong)

      • The bank mania… is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (Aristotélēs)

      • Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. (First Amendment)

      • A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. (Goethe)

      • The history of the human race always has been, and most likely always will be, that of evolution and revolution. (Lewis F. Korns)

      • Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Desmond Tutu)

      • Workers of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains nothing to gain but your freedom. Workers of the world unite. (Karl Marx)

      • Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. (Bakunin)

      • The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… (Jean Genet)

      • The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life. (Tupac Shakur)

      • Revolution is the larva of civilization. (Victor Hugo)

      • Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. (John V. Lindsay)

      • You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

      • Advance, and never halt. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. (Khalil Gibran)

      • Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. (Malcolm X)

      • My children can live without me, but not without dignity. (Aminatou Haidar)

      • Capitalism has now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. (Malcolm X)

      • There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt. (John Adams)

      • There is no peace but the Pax Romana, a “peace” maintained by violence and threat of violence, by the greed of the privileged and the oppression of the weak and the lowly. … The people of God knew, however, that this was no true peace. The peace and prosperity of the Roman empire depended on the continued oppression and enslavement of almost 95 percent of the population of the known world. The “peace” was meant for the privileged, the top 5 percent who dwelt in the palaces and courts of Rome. (Allan Boesak)

      • Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. (Edward Everett)

      • When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • You only have the freedoms you are willing to fight and die for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. (Harry Truman)

      • Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. (Albert J. Beveridge)

      • We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • All just power is derived from the consent of the governed. (John Locke)

      • No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Edmund Burke)

      • Those who cast the votes decide nothing, Those who count the votes decide everything. (Stalin)

      • The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. (Frank Kent)

      • Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government. (Justice William O. Douglas)

      • With terror, tyranny came to power, and with terror, it holds onto its power. The sciences have been subordinated to authoritarian rule. Biology has been falsified, in order to externalize the privileges of the propertied classes. (Manifesto)

      • The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over. (Hitler)

      • Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. (Nietzsche)

      • Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. (Lord Acton)

      • Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives. (Fidel Castro)

      • I am not Christ or a philanthropist. I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal. (Che Guevara)

      • We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • Power is the great aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. (Al Capone)

      • The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance. The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch. For instance, in an age and in a country where royal power, aristocracy, and bourgeoisie are contending for mastery and where, therefore, mastery is shared, the doctrine of the separation of powers proves to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an “eternal law.” (Karl Marx)

      • I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. (Benjamin Franklin)

      • All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. (George Orwell)

      • Against the workers the capitalists of all nations and religions are united, but they strive to divide and weaken the workers by national strife! (Lenin)

      • Relief would do no good. Indians breed like rabbits and will outstrip any available food supply. (Churchill)

      • Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. (George Patton)

      • The dialectics of history were such that the theoretical victory of Marxism compelled its enemies to disguise themselves as Marxists. Liberalism, rotten within, tried to revive itself in the form of socialist opportunism. They interpreted the period of preparing the forces for great battles as renunciation of these battles. Improvement of the conditions of the slaves to fight against wage slavery they took to mean the sale by the slaves of their right to liberty for a few pence. They cravenly preached “social peace” (i.e., peace with the slave-owners), renunciation of the class struggle, etc. They had very many adherents among socialist members of parliament, various officials of the working-class movement, and the “sympathising” intelligentsia. (Lenin)

      • For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press. (Lenin)

      • Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king… its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. (Nikola Tesla)

      • The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • 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. (Lenin)

      • The opportunists are a section of the petty bourgeoisie and of a certain strata of the working class who have been bribed out of imperialist superprofits and converted to watchdogs of capitalism and corruptors of the labour movement. (Lenin)

      • Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also – and this was the highest proof of his greatness – he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour…I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. (Albert Einstein)

      • Powerful people in the American ruling class fear democracy. (Tim Robbins)

      • In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was nobody left to speak up. (Martin Niemöller)

      • It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms. (John Stockwell)

      • I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it. (Ariel Sharon)

      • We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them. (Goldwin Smith)

      • I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in ’47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. (Harry Truman)

      • We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world – no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • All over the world, people need change. The change? Getting control over the power and resources they need to solve their problems. (Jeremy Brecher)

      • We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. (Cecil Rhodes)

      • We have a single system, and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.” ” The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it. (Henry Adams)

      • If you liked El Salvador, you’re going to love Colombia. It’s the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington. (Carlos Salinas)

      • Today, the United States and Somalia are the only two countries in the world which haven’t ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. And since Somalia is a country with no internationally recognized government, the United States essentially stands alone as the last holdout to legally guarantee children the same full range of human rights … agreed to by 191 other sovereign states. (Catherine Langevin-Falcon)

      • America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome’s policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number. (Arnold Joseph Toynbee)

      • All the emphasis on crime and drugs and pornography used to justify the suppression of the internet is really aimed at suppressing knowledge of the radical politic alternatives that are now available. (Tony Benn)

      • This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this. (Karl Marx)

      • Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them? But this will have no effect upon them at all. Communists do not in the least idealise the methods of violence. But they, the Communists, do not want to be taken by surprise, they cannot count on the old world voluntarily departing from the stage, they see that the old system is violently defending itself, and that is why the Communists say to the working class : Answer violence with violence; do all you can to prevent the old dying order from crushing you, do not permit it to put manacles on your hands, on the hands with which you will overthrow the old system. As you see, the Communists regard the substitution of one social system for another, not simply as a spontaneous and peaceful process, but as a complicated, long and violent process. Communists cannot ignore facts. (Stalin)

      • 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. (John W. Whitehead)

      • Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible. (Stalin)

      • In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. (Lenin)

      • All that modern nations have achieved is to disguise slavery at home and import it openly into the New World. (Karl Marx)

      • Trotsky groups all the enemies of Marxism. (Lenin)

      • The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. (Samuel P. Huntington)

      • Of course, I am against fascism with its spread of color prejudice and race hatred and working class oppression. How could any sensible Negro be otherwise? (Aldous Huxley)

      • Fascism presented itself not only as an alternative, but also as the heir to socialism. (J.L. Talmon)

      • The laws of social development are not identical with the laws in the natural sciences. The content of the social laws is not nature but second nature: coagulated history. They are manmade, but they also make men; they are dialectical, at once subject and object. (Russell Jacoby)

      • Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they’re unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who’ve had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people’s property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored. (Plátōn)

      • There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. (Howard Zinn)

      • A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses. (Lenin)

      • The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. (Michael Parenti)

      • There is no escape for capitalism save the escape of death. Do what they may, they cannot get out of the continual circle of ever-rising prices, piling debts, unemployment, war and threats, of war, and all the time the rising tide of the anger of the people at home and in the subject countries abroad. It is their knowledge of this which inspires their panic fear of Bolshevism, even when the actual movement is as weak as a child; until by the very noise of their panic they help to create what they are seeking to destroy. It is their knowledge of this which is making them fight with all the ferocity and violence of a trapped animal. They are in panic because they know their failure; they are violent because they know they are not strong. And it is this same knowledge, which gives the confidence of absolute assurance to the Communist struggle. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. (Khalil Gibran)

      • Of course, in the United States of America, in Britain, as also in France, there are aggressive forces thirsting for a new war. They need war to obtain super-profits, to plunder other countries. These are the billionaires and millionaires who regard war as an item of income which gives colossal profits. (Stalin)

      • Only Socialism can finally end imperialist wars by ending their cause—the class system of society. The victory of Socialism in the leading countries of the world means the end of war, because it ends the jungle-fight of the exploiters over the spoils; it ends the fight for profits, spheres of influence, colonies, markets and monopolist domination. Socialism means the freedom and brotherhood of all nations without distinction of race or colour. Socialism means that all peoples freely organise their production for use, for common advantage. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Compared to feudalism, capitalism was an historical advance along the road of “liberty”, “equality”, “democracy” and “civilisation”. Nevertheless capitalism was, and remains, a system of wage-slavery, of the enslavement of millions of working people, workers and peasants, by an insignificant minority of modern slave-owners, landowners and capitalists. Bourgeois democracy, as compared to feudalism, has changed the form of this economic slavery, has created a brilliant screen for it but has not, and could not, change its essence. Capitalism and bourgeois democracy are wage-slavery. (Lenin)

      • Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • Two basic steps are thus required: first to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them; […] second to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • If the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us. (George H. W. Bush)

      • Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • Stalin is the savior of all the oppressed. (Mao Zedong)

      • I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. (Picasso)

      • The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class. What class must the proletariat suppress? Naturally, only the exploiting class, i.e., the bourgeoisie. The working people need the state only to suppress the resistance of the exploiters, and only the proletariat can direct this suppression, can carry it out. For the proletariat is the only class that is consistently revolutionary, the only class that can unite all the working and exploited people in the struggle against the bourgeoisie, in completely removing it. (Lenin)

      • All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. (Lenin)

      • The state is a machine for the oppression of one class by another, a machine for holding in obedience to one class other, subordinated classes. There are various forms of this machine. The slave-owning state could be a monarchy, an aristocratic republic or even a democratic republic. In fact the forms of government varied extremely, but their essence was always the same: the slaves enjoyed no rights and constituted an oppressed class; they were not regarded as human beings. We find the same thing in the feudal state. (Lenin)

      • Capitalism reveals itself in fact, with the increase of concentration and the power of production, not as a growingly harmonious and organised system of world production, but as a growingly violent system of antagonisms. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The old ignorant Malthusian notions of absolute “overpopulation,” or the modern lugubrious chants of birth-control as the necessary solution of poverty, are thus abundantly exploded by facts. It is worth noting that this reactionary propaganda is still maintained, not only in clerical and con- servative quarters, but also by the would-be “progressive” (actually, as we shall have occasion to see, one of the real bulwarks of conservatism in England) Labour Party. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Fascism accordingly requires for its full realisation the “totalitarian” terroristic class-State. Social Democracy controls the workers most favourably and successfully in the liberal-parliamentary class-State, utilising its own “internal” methods of discipline, and occasional State coercion, for the suppression of all militant struggle. Fascism operates primarily by coercion alongside of deception. Social Democracy operates primarily by deception, alongside of coercion. It is this combined relationship of difference in method and parallelism in basic aim and role that underlies Stalin’s definition, given already in 1924 (“Main Factors of the Present International Situation,” Communist International, English edition 1924, No. 6), that “Social Democracy objectively represents the moderate wing of Fascism.” (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Fascism by all the above tests is economically identical with Capitalism, representing only a special method to maintain its power and hold down the workers. Fascism is profit-making society, is class-society, is society based on exploitation. Alike in Italy and in Germany, production is carried on for profit; the means of production are the property of a small minority, the upper strata of whom draw large incomes through their ownership; the mass of the workers are cut off from ownership, and work for a wage, producing surplus-value for the owners, or are left unemployed, if it is not profitable to employ them. All these are the familiar characteristics of capitalism in all countries, as are equally the crisis, depression, decline of production and mass unemployment. The Fascist countries show no difference from the other capitalist countries in any of these respects. Fascist Italy and Fascist Germany are no better off than non-Fascist France and non-Fascist Britain (in fact worse off, but for reasons not necessarily connected with Fascism); they are all economically in the same boat, in the capitalist boat. The only contrast is provided by the land of socialist construction, the Soviet Union, with its ending of unemployment and gigantic rise of production alongside the decline in all Fascist or other capitalist countries. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of the transfusion. As a rule propaganda always operates from a preexisting substrate, be it a national mythology or a complex of traditional hatreds and prejudices; It is a matter of spreading arguments that can be rooted in primitive attitudes. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • The owners of the Washington Post long ago acknowledged that the Post is the government’s voice to the people. In 1981, Katherine Graham, who owns the Post and Newsweek announced that her editors would “cooperate with the national security interests.” National security in this context means “CIA.” (John Stockwell)

      • The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands – the ownership and control of their livelihoods – are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease. (Helen Keller)

      • Marxism differs from all primitive forms of socialism by not binding the movement to any one particular form of struggle. It recognises the most varied forms of struggle; and it does not “concoct” them, but only generalises, organises, gives conscious expression to those forms of struggle of the revolutionary classes which arise of themselves in the course of the movement. Absolutely hostile to all abstract formulas and to all doctrinaire recipes, Marxism demands an attentive attitude to the mass struggle in progress, which, as the movement develops, as the class-consciousness of the masses grows, as economic and political crises become acute, continually gives rise to new and more varied methods of defence and attack. Marxism, therefore, positively does not reject any form of struggle. (Lenin)

      • Pre-Marxist socialism has been defeated. It is continuing the struggle, no longer on its own independent ground, but on the general ground of Marxism, as revisionism. (Lenin)

      • The traitors, blockheads and pedants of the Second International could never understand such dialectics; the proletariat cannot achieve victory if it does not win the majority of the population to its side. But to limit that winning to polling a majority of votes in an election under the rule of the bourgeoisie, or to make it the condition for it, is crass stupidity, or else sheer deception of the workers. In order to win the majority of the population to its side the proletariat must, in the first p]ace, overthrow the bourgeoisie and seize state power; secondly, it must introduce Soviet power and complete]y smash the old state apparatus, whereby it immediately undermines the rule, prestige and influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the non-proletarian working people. Thirdly, it must entirely destroy the influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the majority of the non-proletarian masses by satisfying their economic needs in a revolutionary way at the expense of the exploiters. (Lenin)

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      The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), on behalf of its 97 million affiliated workers in 130 countries from all corners of the world, declares its total rejection against the terrible forest fires that currently harm Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay and at the same time affirms its solidarity with the populations of the affected areas. For the WFTU, the catastrophe in the “green lung of the planet”, as well as the consequences for the native peoples and thousands of species of flora and fauna of the region is not a coincidence, but an organized crime, a plan encouraged and stimulated by the big capital and the Brazilian government that continues to implement with more intensity the harmful policies for the environment of the previous social democratic governments. Its goal is to illegally deforest land for livestock and agriculture, delivering virgin forests to transnationals for biofuels, illegal logging and mining. The big class-oriented union family of the WFTU demands the immediate application of protection, compensation and reforestation measures in the affected areas, as well as the prohibition of business activities in the region. In addition, we call on the peoples and workers of the countries of the Amazon to intensify their struggle for the protection of the environment, which is also a struggle against the capitalist system that generates poverty policies, environmental catastrophes and crimes against the peoples of the world. The Secretariat
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    Amnesty International: The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes7/#quotenr6836
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      • Since 1845 Marx and I have held the view that one of the ultimate results of the future proletarian revolution will be the gradual dissolution of the political organisation known by the name of state. The main object of this organisation has always been to secure, by armed force, the economic oppression of the labouring majority by the minority which alone possesses wealth. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime. (Benjamin Disraeli)

      • The revolutionary proletariat cannot be victorious unless this evil is combated, unless the opportunist, social-traitor leaders are exposed, discredited and expelled. That is the policy the Third International has embarked on. (Lenin)

      • For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. (Albert Einstein)

      • Because they didn’t know better, they called it “civilization, ” when it was part of their slavery. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • In those countries, it is actually capital that rules; that is, nothing more than a clique of a few hundred men who possess untold wealth and, as a consequence of the peculiar structure of their national life, are more or less independent and free. They say: ‘Here we have liberty.’ By this they mean, above all, an uncontrolled economy, and by an uncontrolled economy, the freedom not only to acquire capital but to make absolutely free use of it. That means freedom from national control or control by the people both in the acquisition of capital and in its employment. This is really what they mean when they speak of liberty. These capitalists create their own press and then speak of the ‘freedom of the press.’ In reality, every one of the newspapers has a master, and in every case this master is the capitalist, the owner. This master, not the editor, is the one who directs the policy of the paper. If the editor tries to write other than what suits the master, he is ousted the next day. This press, which is the absolutely submissive and characterless slave of the owners, molds public opinion. (Hitler)

      • The Chinese Trotskyists (like the Trotskyists of other countries) do not represent a political group, much less a political party. They are nothing but a band of evil-doers, the running dogs of Japanese fascism (and of international fascism). (Ho Chi Minh)

      • The process of revolution is — on a historical scale — synonymous with the process of the development of proletarian class consciousness. (György Lukács)

      • In Marx the dialectical method aims at understanding society as a whole. Bourgeois thought concerns itself with objects that arise either from the process of studying phenomena in isolation, or from the division of labor and specialisation in the different disciplines. (György Lukács)

      • From a very early stage the ideological history of the bourgeoisie was nothing but a desperate resistance to every insight into the true nature of the society it had created. (György Lukács)

      • In our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles. (H. G. Wells)

      • Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action. (Michael Parenti)

      • A nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people. (Stalin)

      • It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. (Deng Xiaoping)

      • Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. (Lenin)

      • Goebbels […] was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. (Edward Bernays)

      • The Nazi state was created by the same oligarchical financial and political interests who today control what we call the mass media and television. Forget about whatever stories you have seen on television about how Hitler came to power: His path to power was cleared by the same oligarchs who employ the brainwashers that program your television. Over a period of years, following the First World War, Germany was brutalized by the economic policy of this international (ETK: Jewish) elite. Hitler’s Nazis were funded and promoted as a political option, and then steered into power in 1932-1933. Once in power, the Nazis maintained their hold through the use of terror as part of mass brainwashing. In many ways it were proper to view the Nazi period as an experiment in methods of mass brainwashing and social control. (Lonnie Wolfe)

      • Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat. (Karl Marx)

      • The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent. (Charles Eliot Norton)

      • A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • Revolutions never go backwards. (Wendell Phillips)

      • The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. (Camus)

      • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (JFK)

      • The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I. (Karl Liebknecht)

      • Capitalist states can maintain themselves only by crime. (Bakunin)

      • Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! (Malcolm X)

      • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. (C. C. Colton)

      • A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. (Bertrand de Jouvenel)

      • Revolutions are the locomotives of history. (Karl Marx)

      • Fight the power that be. Fight the power. (Spike Lee)

      • A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. (Malcolm X)

      • An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. (Samuel Johnson)

      • The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. Wake up! (Tupac Shakur)

      • The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. (Aristotélēs)

      • They that start by burning books will end by burning men. (Heinrich Heine)

      • I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect. (Thomas Paine)

      • When I was asked about any weapon capable of surpassing the power of the atomic bomb, I suggested the best of all: Peace. (Albert Einstein)

      • Experience has proved that, on certain very important questions of the proletarian revolution, all countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done. (Lenin)

      • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. (Frederick Douglass)

      • Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. (Hitler)

      • During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell)

      • The Struggle of Guevara against the US was the struggle of the Spirit against Matter. (Ernesto Sábato)

      • No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. (Edmund Burke)

      • The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power. (Mussolini)

      • But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (The Declaration of Independence)

      • Hegel remarks somewhere that history tends to repeat itself. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. (Karl Marx)

      • Behind the visible government there is an invisible government upon the throne that owes the people no loyalty and recognizes no responsibility. To destroy this invisible government, to undo the ungodly union between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the task of a statesman. (Theodore Roosevelt)

      • You let men in power assume power “for the Little Man”. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded. (Wilhelm Reich)

      • Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. (James Madison)

      • The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. (James W. Fulbright)

      • There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war… Except its ending. (Albert Einstein)

      • Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny. (Zapata)

      • With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • …foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don’t understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn’t like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It’s the kind of a life a decent man leads, it’s something to live for and to die for. (Dalton Trumbo)

      • The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us. (Michael Parenti)

      • The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. (Karl Marx)

      • Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Benjamin Franklin)

      • We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • Today’s Conservatives Are Fascists: Torture, dictatorship, phony `elections, ‘ and endless war – it’s fascism with a `democratic’ face. (Justin Raimondo)

      • It is well known that the black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family. It is well known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery which was, for centuries, a scourge for the Negroes and a bitter disgrace for mankind. What everyone does not perhaps know, is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching. (Ho Chi Minh)

      • (To Benito Mussolini:) If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. (Churchill)

      • We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. (William Casey)

      • The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. (Benjamin Disraeli)

      • 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. (Lenin)

      • The obliging Trotsky is more dangerous than an enemy! (Lenin)

      • I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. (Stalin)

      • Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. (Ayrton Senna)

      • The common elements of fascism — extreme nationalism, social Darwinism, the leadership principle, elitism, anti-liberalism, anti-egalitarianism, anti-democracy, intolerance, glorification of war, the supremacy of the state and anti-intellectualism — together form a rather loose doctrine. Fascism emphasises action rather than theory, and fascist theoretical writings are always weak. (Ian Adams)

      • In fascist countries capitalism only survives as Fascism, and Fascism can only be resisted as capitalism, as the most naked, brazen, offensive, and deceitful form of capitalism. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. US national security, as preached by US leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people. (Philip Agee)

      • We now live in a state of permanent war – a global arms industry, apparently the largest single international business, must have its products used up so more can be sold. There must be profits for the capitalists and jobs for the proles… Are we not still in Caligula’s Rome? (David Watson)

      • … the media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and … the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources. (Peter Phillips)

      • A considerable proportion of the developed world’s prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries’ primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries – it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty. (Philip Agee)

      • All national institutions of Churches appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and to monopolise power and profit. (Thomas Paine)

      • Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. (Jean-Paul Marat)

      • The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. (Amnesty International)

      • [Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. (Howard Zinn)

      • There is …a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and “develop” them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the “enforcers” of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives. (Edward Herman)

      • Freedom of the Press belongs to the man who owns one. (A. J. Liebling)

      • In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times. (Robert McChesney)

      • The actual state of violence composed of the malnutrition, ignorance, sickness and hunger of the vast majority of the Guatemalan population, is the direct result of a capitalist system that makes the defenseless Indian compete against the powerful and well-armed landowner. (Thomas Melville)

      • Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. (William Blum)

      • … several of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. (Charles Higham)

      • How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)

      • Nor will there be planned economy. What is planned economy? What are some of its attributes? Planned economy tries to abolish unemployment. Let us suppose it is possible, while preserving the capitalist system, to reduce unemployment to a certain minimum. But surely, no capitalist would ever agree to the complete abolition of unemployment, to the abolition of the reserve army of unemployed, the purpose of which is to bring pressure on the labour market, to ensure a supply of cheap labour. You will never compel a capitalist to incur loss to himself and agree to a lower rate of profit for the sake of satisfying the needs of the people. (Stalin)

      • The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly. (Friedrich Engels)

      • A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words that are easily understood by ordinary people. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists. (Nikola Tesla)

      • There’s a class warfare, all right, but it’s my class that’s making war, and we’re winning. (Warren Buffett)

      • I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for ‘bread! bread!’ and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism…. My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. (Cecil Rhodes)

      • [Fascism is] a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti conservative nationalism. As such it is an ideology deeply bound up with modernization and modernity, one which has assumed a considerable variety of external forms to adapt itself to the particular historical and national context in which it appears, and has drawn a wide range of cultural and intellectual currents, both left and right, anti-modern and pro-modern, to articulate itself as a body of ideas, slogans, and doctrine. In the inter-war period it manifested itself primarily in the form of an elite-led “armed party” which attempted, mostly unsuccessfully, to generate a populist mass movement through a liturgical style of politics and a programme of radical policies which promised to overcome a threat posed by international socialism, to end the degeneration affecting the nation under liberalism, and to bring about a radical renewal of its social, political and cultural life as part of what was widely imagined to be the new era being inaugurated in Western civilization. The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation’s imminent rebirth from decadence. (Roger Griffin)

      • If the Fascist ideology cannot be described as a simple response to Marxism, its origins, on the other hand, were the direct result of very specific revision of Marxism. It was a revision of Marxism and not a variety of Marxism or a consequence of Marxism…It was the French and Italian Sorelians, the theoreticians of revolutionary syndicalism who made this new and original revision of Marxism, and precisely this was their contribution to the birth of the Fascist ideology. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. (Thucydides)

      • If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up. (Mahmoud Darwish)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of suppressing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously with an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. (Lenin)

      • It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. (Michael Parenti)

      • Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’ (Angela Davis)

      • 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. (Lenin)

      • Today literature, even that published “legally”, can be nine-tenths party literature. It must become party literature In contradistinction to bourgeois customs, to the profit-making, commercialised bourgeois press, to bourgeois literary careerism and individualism, “aristocratic anarchism” and drive for profit, the socialist proletariat must put forward the principle of party literature, must develop this principle and put it into practice as fully and completely as possible. (Lenin)

      • Develop the class struggles. Organize the proletariat. Start the armed resistance! (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • Thus, this war is a war of one set of exploiters against another set of exploiters. It is a war of rival capitalist Great Powers, like the last war: a war for world domination : for the largest share in the exploitation of the world; for possessions, profits, markets and spheres of influence; for the new division of the world. The interests of the working people in all countries are wholly opposed to this conflict of imperialist Powers for world domination, in which the people are sacrificed for the profit of the exploiters. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • This type of struggle provides us with the opportunity to become revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species. At the same time, it enables us to emerge fully as men. (Che Guevara)

      • The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • You speak of your “devotion” to me. Perhaps it was just a chance phrase. Perhaps. . . . But if the phrase was not accidental I would advise you to discard the “principle” of devotion to persons. It is not the Bolshevik way. Be devoted to the working class, its Party, its state. That is a fine and useful thing. But do not confuse it with devotion to persons, this vain and useless bauble of weak-minded intellectuals. (Stalin)

      • He (Stalin) established unity in the Soviet Union. He consolidated what Lenin had begun: party unity. He gave the international revolutionary movement a new impetus. The USSR’s industrialization was one of Stalin’s wisest actions. (Fidel Castro)

      • Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The state is, therefore, by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it ’the reality of the ethical idea’, ’the image and reality of reason’, as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ’order’; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another. When there were no classes in society, when, before the epoch of slavery, people laboured in primitive conditions of greater equality, in conditions when the productivity of labour was still at its lowest, and when primitive man could barely procure the wherewithal for the crudest and most primitive existence, a special group of people whose function is to rule and to dominate the rest of society, had not and could not yet have emerged. Only when the first form of the division of society into classes appeared, only when slavery appeared, when a certain class of people, by concentrating on the crudest forms of agricultural labour, could produce a certain surplus, when this surplus was not absolutely essential for the most wretched existence of the slave and passed into the hands of the slave-owner, when in this way the existence of this class of slave-owners was secure—then in order that it might take firm root it was necessary for a state to appear. (Lenin)

      • Labor is a commodity, like any other, and its price is therefore determined by exactly the same laws that apply to other commodities. In a regime of big industry or of free competition – as we shall see, the two come to the same thing – the price of a commodity is, on the average, always equal to its cost of production. Hence, the price of labor is also equal to the cost of production of labor. But, the costs of production of labor consist of precisely the quantity of means of subsistence necessary to enable the worker to continue working, and to prevent the working class from dying out. The worker will therefore get no more for his labor than is necessary for this purpose; the price of labor, or the wage, will, in other words, be the lowest, the minimum, required for the maintenance of life. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Working class women have more in common with working class men than they do with women like Margaret Thatcher and Edwina Currie, because their oppression as women stems from the exploitation which all the working class suffers. Thatcher and Currie are representatives of the exploiting class, whose interests are in direct conflict with the interests of working class men and women. (Eleanor Leacock)

      • Fascism cannot be interpreted in terms of its own alleged political “theories,” but only in terms of its service to finance-capital. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of the silencing. To silence on the questions on which there are no arguments and to disguise the news that favors the adversary, also counterprogramando with the aid of related media. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • To pay for the arms race the nation has to cut thousands of social programs, … The nation cannot go wild on military expenditures and also afford to care for old people, poor people, disabled people, farmers, or students. (John Stockwell)

      • Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals. (Michael Parenti)

      • Either materialism consistent to the end, or the falsehood and confusion of philosophical idealism. (Lenin)

      • The bourgeoisie needs hirelings who enjoy the trust of a section of the working class, whitewash and prettify the bourgeoisie with talk about the reformist path being possible, throw dust in the eyes of the people by such talk, and divert the people from revolution by giving glowing descriptions of the charms and possibilities of the reformist path. (Lenin)

      • Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer. I always wanted to construct agricultural machinery. (Mikhail Kalashnikov)

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    Lenin: 241. TO N. P. BRYUKHANOV, A. M. LEZHAVA AND V. A. AVANESOV #ClassWarfare https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/jul/11.htm
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    A. J. P. Taylor: No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is ALWAYS economic. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes6/#quotenr6835
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      • We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society. The teachings about this society are called socialism. (Lenin)

      • The similarities of the economics of the New Deal to the economics of Mussolini’s corporative state or Hitler’s totalitarian state are both close and obvious. (Norman Thomas)

      • I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. (Churchill)

      • The bourgeois court, which claimed to maintain order, but which, as a matter of fact, was a blind, subtle instrument for the ruthless suppression of the exploited, and an instrument for protecting the interests of the moneybags. (Lenin)

      • In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons […] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. (Edward Bernays)

      • In order to have more, must produce more. In order to produce more, must know more. (A. Zellinskii)

      • Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions. (Michael Parenti)

      • Trotskyism is the advanced detachment of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie. (Stalin)

      • In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons. (Hēródotos)

      • In a country ruled by an autocracy, with a completely enslaved press, in a period of desperate political reaction in which even the tiniest outgrowth of political discontent and protest is persecuted, the theory of revolutionary Marxism suddenly forced its way into the censored literature before the government realised what had happened and the unwieldy army of censors and gendarmes discovered the new enemy and flung itself upon him. (Lenin)

      • The success of scientific socialism in China is of great importance for Marxism, scientific socialism and socialism across the world. It is most fundamental for the CPC to hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics so as to realize its historic mission in the new era. (Xi Jinping)

      • Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. (Albert Einstein)

      • Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency. (Mao Zedong)

      • Dissent is the mark of freedom. (Jacob Bronowski)

      • While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, achieving at most the aims already mentioned, it is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one. (Karl Marx)

      • What is a rebel? A man who says no. (Camus)

      • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. (Bakunin)

      • If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. (Mao Zedong)

      • I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • There was a time when people of the rich nations of the world regarded poverty as a “natural condition” for those living in the poor nations of the world. … Today we have largely been stripped of this pseudo-innocence. We know that the poor are so poor because the rich are so rich, that the causes of poverty can be traced to deliberate decisions and deliberate economic and political policies designed to benefit the rich and powerful. We know that poverty and unemployment are not just accidents of history but deliberate, even indispensable, components of capitalism as an economic system. (Allan Boesak)

      • To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions. (Louis Antoine de Saint-Just)

      • I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. (Howard Mumford Jones)

      • War is a quarrel between rich thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. (Thomas Carlyle)

      • He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. (James MacGregor Burns)

      • Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. (Stokely Carmichael)

      • All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • We are certain that we are invincible, if humanity will not emerge from this imperialistic massacre broken in spirit it will triumph. (Lenin)

      • The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. (Bakunin)

      • Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to. (Mumia Abu-Jamal)

      • Modern monopolist capitalism on a world-wide scale — imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists. (Lenin)

      • Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism…. I could have given Al Capone a few hints… I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys…. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street…. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers…. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. (General Smedley Butler)

      • Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. (Marshal Mcluhan)

      • The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. (Michael Parenti)

      • You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (and women) to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

      • It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford)

      • If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. (Samuel Adams)

      • Truth never damages a cause that is just. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing tactics, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. (Mark Twain)

      • Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. (Ronald Reagan)

      • If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Each word, has an echo. So does each silence. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise! (Max Stirner)

      • Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Military men are just dumb stupid animals, to be used as pawns in foreign policy. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility. (Dalton Trumbo)

      • National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. (Stalin)

      • Fascism is a religion of the state. It assumes the organic unity of the body politic and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people. It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything, including economy and religion, must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the “problem” and therefore defined as the enemy. (Jonah Goldberg)

      • We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

      • Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. (Karl Marx)

      • For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. (Clara Zetkin)

      • For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. (Charles Erwin Wilson)

      • I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. (Churchill)

      • A “liberal” is not a political orientation but a psychiatric diagnosis. (Daniel Estulin)

      • In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely [the] relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure, and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political, and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or — this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms — with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces, these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead, sooner or later, to the transformation of the whole, immense, superstructure. In studying such transformations, it is always necessary to distinguish between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, artistic, or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. Just as one does not judge an individual by what he thinks about himself, so one cannot judge such a period of transformation by its consciousness, but, on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the conflict existing between the social forces of production and the relations of production. (Karl Marx)

      • Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. (Fidel Castro)

      • The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • 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. (Lenin)

      • I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. (Udo Ulfkotte)

      • The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies. (Mumia Abu-Jamal)

      • As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. (Karl Marx)

      • Capitals accumulate faster than population. (Karl Marx)

      • Society exists to serve the social needs of people, not the productivity needs of capital. Those two needs are in basic conflict – a conflict of class interest. (David Bacon)

      • Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Nothing illustrates the power to rationalize cynicism as well as the Public Safety Program, also called the Office of Public Safety. For about twenty-five years, the CIA, working through the Agency for International Development, trained and organized police and paramilitary officers from around the world in techniques of population control, repression, and torture. Schools were set up in the United States, Panama, and Asia, from which tens of thousands graduated. In some cases, former Nazi officers from Hitler’s Third Reich were used as instructors. (John Stockwell)

      • As for myself, I am just a pupil of Lenin’s, and the aim of my life is to be a worthy pupil of his. The task to which I have devoted my life is the elevation of a different class-the working class. That task is not the consolidation of some “national” state, but of a socialist state, and that means an international state; and everything that strengthens that state helps to strengthen the entire international working class. (Stalin)

      • He who allows oppression, shares the crime. (Erasmus Darwin)

      • We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both. (Louis Brandeis)

      • No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is ALWAYS economic. (A. J. P. Taylor)

      • If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry. (Andrew Grove)

      • … the establishment can’t admit [that] it is human rights violations that make … countries attractive to business — so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don’t] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation… (Edward Herman)

      • The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. (Nehru)

      • His forces executed or “disappeared” 3, 197 people. Tens of thousands were tortured, hundreds of thousands were forced into exile. Pinochet destroyed the constitution, the parliament, the political parties, the trade unions, and the free universities. (Saul Landau)

      • As human rights conditions deteriorate, factors affecting the “climate of investment, ” like the tax laws and labor repression, improve from the viewpoint of the multinational corporation. This suggests an important line of causation — military dictatorships tend to improve the investment climate…. The multinational corporate community and the U.S. government are very sensitive to this factor. Military dictators enter into a tacit joint venture arrangement with Free World leaders: They will keep the masses quiet, maintain an open door to multinational investment, and provide bases and otherwise serve as loyal clients. In exchange, they will be aided and protected against their own people, and allowed to loot public property. (Edward Herman)

      • Patriotism, like religion, meets people’s need for something greater to which their individual lives can be anchored … America’s state religion, [is] patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that “treason” is morally worse than murder or rape. (William Blum)

      • …a number of financial and industrial figures of World War II and several members of the government served the cause of money before the cause of patriotism. While aiding the United States’ war effort, they also aided Nazi Germany’s. (Charles Higham)

      • The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. (Gore Vidal)

      • The problem of producing synthetic food is purely chemical, and there is no reason to regard it as insoluble. No doubt natural foods will taste better, and rich men, at weddings and feasts, will provide real peas and beans, which will be mentioned by the newspapers with awe. But in the main food will be manufactured in vast chemical factories. (Bertrand Russell)

      • Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa. It is a reconquest that turns each one of us into a financial slave. (Thomas Sankara)

      • Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Plátōn)

      • As a house on a weak foundation cannot last long, a fantasy, however good it is, becomes an absurd daydream if it is supported by weak basic knowledge. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. (Mao Zedong)

      • Free of affectation and mannerisms, he (Stalin — Ed.) won the heart of everyone he talked with. (Georgy Zhukov)

      • [Fascist ideology was] a variety of socialism which, while rejecting Marxism, remained revolutionary. This form of socialism was also, by definition, anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois, and its opposition to historical materialism made it the natural ally of radical nationalism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • We reject any morality based on extra-human and extra-class concepts. We say that this is deception, dupery, stultification of the workers and peasants in the interests of the landowners and capitalists. (Lenin)

      • The concept of “human existence” suggests an abstract human condition; “class existence” indicts bad conditions. The former suggests a nonexistent egalitarianism, as if master and slave, owner and worker, bomber and bombed all participate in the same universal abstraction. … The human condition for the rich is the inhuman one for the impoverished. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The modern banking system manufactures “money” out of nothing; and the process is, perhaps, the most, astounding piece of “sleight of hand” that was ever invented. (Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas)

      • People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. (Lenin)

      • The working class must break up, smash the “ready-made state machinery,” and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. (Lenin)

      • The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state. (Michael Parenti)

      • 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. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Marxism-Leninism is the science of the laws governing the development of nature and society, the science of the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses, the science of the victory of Socialism in all countries, the science of building Communist society. (Stalin)

      • Without simultaneously building the Red Army, every conflict, all political work in the factories, in the Wedding and Märkische Viertel districts, in the Plötze, and in the courtroom will degenerate into nothing more than reformism, which means you merely push through better means of discipline, better methods of intimidation, better methods of exploitation. All that does is break the people down. It does not break down what breaks the people down! (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius)

      • The whole propaganda of imperialism, of the Governments and the press, teaches the people on both sides to see as the main enemy the aggressive designs of the foreign imperialism, never of their own. Therefore, they remain, in fact, enslaved to imperialism and its wars. The mutual fears of the aggressive aims of the enemy imperialism cancel out the common desire of the overwhelming majority of the people in both countries for peace. The imperialist gangsters take advantage of these fears of the people, of this natural desire for national independence, to trap the people into support of their war of spoliation. Under the pretence that the war is for national defence, for the defence of the independence of the nation, they send the armies, the warships and planes to the furthest ends of the earth for the enslavement of other nations and for the battle against rival exploiters over the spoils and conquests of foreign domination. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • But those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man. (Lenin)

      • Firstly, to wage an unceasing struggle against Social-Democratism in all spheres — in the economic and in the political sphere, including in the latter the exposure of bourgeois pacifism with the task of winning the majority of the working class for communism. (Stalin)

      • If trade stops, war starts. (Jack Ma)

      • No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • Every Party member must raise his revolutionary qualities in every respect to the same level as those of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. (Nelson Mandela)

      • This systematic organisation of a terrorized, over-worked and mentally starved slave society, directed to the supreme aim of war, is the most modern development of monopoly capitalism under conditions of extreme crisis. It is known as fascism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The modern state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. (Max Weber)

      • The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force. (Michael Parenti)

      • I honor Lenin as a man who completely sacrificed himself and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice. I do not consider his methods practical, but one thing is certain: men of his type are the guardians and restorers of the conscience of humanity. (Albert Einstein)

      • The sensation of a “new ideology” which intoxicates the more fanatical and emotional adherents of Fascism, giving them the illusion of a liberation from old superstitions and a new dynamic power, represents in reality no new ideology distinct from the general ideology of capitalism, but only the typical ideology of the most modern phase of capitalism, that is to say, the sharpened expression of all the tendencies of imperialism or capitalism in decay, in the period of the general crisis. The contempt for constitutional and legalist forms, the glorification of violence, the denial of all liberal, egalitarian and humanitarian ideas, the demand for the strong and powerful state, the enthronement of war as the highest form of human activity—all these are the typical expressions of modern monopolist capitalism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of verisimilitude. Construct arguments from diverse sources, through so-called probes or fragmentary information. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The CIA and the big corporations were, in my experience, in step with each other. Later I realized that they may argue about details of strategy – a small war here or there. However, both are vigorously committed to supporting the system. (John Stockwell)

      • Nothing is eternal but eternally changing, eternally moving matter and the laws according to which it moves and changes. (Friedrich Engels)

      • There is a Latin tag cui prodest? meaning “who stands to gain?” When it is not immediately apparent which political or social groups, forces or alignments advocate certain proposals, measures, etc., one should always ask: “Who stands to gain?” It is not important who directly advocates a particular policy, since under the present noble system of capitalism any money-bag can always “hire”, buy or enlist any number of lawyers, writers and even parliamentary deputies, professors, parsons and the like to defend any views. We live in an age of commerce, when the bourgeoisie have no scruples about trading in honour or conscience. There are also simpletons who out of stupidity or by force of habit defend views prevalent in certain bourgeois circles. Yes, indeed! In politics it is not so important who directly advocates particular views. What is important is who stands to gain from these views, proposals, measures. (Lenin)

      • If we want to stay really human beings, we must get up and call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals. (Hajo Meyer)

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      • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • Since 1967 it has become obvious that political Zionism has one monolithic aim: Maximum land in Palestine with a minimum of Palestinians on it. This aim is pursued with an inexcusable cruelty as demonstrated during the assault on Gaza. The cruelty is explicitly formulated in the Dahiye doctrine of the military and morally supported by the Holocaust religion. I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of “blood and soil” in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people — coerced ghettoization behind a “security wall”; the bulldozing of homes and destruction of fields; the bombing of schools, mosques, and government buildings; an economic blockade that deprives people of the water, food, medicine, education and the basic necessities for dignified survival — force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth. This century-long process of oppression means unimaginable suffering for Palestinians. (Hajo Meyer)

      • Imperialism is a specific historical stage of capitalism. Its specific character is threefold: imperialism is monopoly capitalism; parasitic, or decaying capitalism; moribund capitalism. The supplanting of free competition by monopoly is the fundamental economic feature, the quintessence of imperialism. Monopoly manifests itself in five principal forms: (1) cartels, syndicates and trusts—the concentration of production has reached a degree which gives rise to these monopolistic associations of capitalists; (2) the monopolistic position of the big banks—three, four or five giant banks manipulate the whole economic life of America, France, Germany; (3) seizure of the sources of raw material by the trusts and the financial oligarchy (finance capital is monopoly industrial capital merged with bank capital); (4) the (economic) partition of the world by the international cartels has begun. There are already over one hundred such international cartels, which command the entire world market and divide it “amicably” among themselves—until war redivides it. The export of capital, as distinct from the export of commodities under non-monopoly capitalism, is a highly characteristic phenomenon and is closely linked with the economic and territorial-political partition of the world; (5) the territorial partition of the world (colonies) is completed. (Lenin)

      • Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point the finger at any of its new instances — every day and in every part of the world. (Umberto Eco)

      • Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism — the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices — suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed. If they speak or act in an unruly way, they will be promptly stopped and punished. Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship. (Mao Zedong)

      • The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. (Clara Zetkin)

      • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down… Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man. (Edward Bernays)

      • The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. (Edward Bernays)

      • Bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and “radical” words. In times of crisis, however even well-meaning participants therein very often reveal a discrepancy between word and deed. The great and progressive significance of all crises, even the gravest, most arduous and painful, lies in the tremendous speed, force and clarity with which they expose and sweep aside rotten phrases, even if well meaning, and rotten institutions even if they are built on the best of intentions. (Lenin)

      • The workers have taken it into their heads that they, with their busy hands, are the necessary, and the rich capitalists, who do nothing, the surplus population. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein)

      • Principle of simplification and the single enemy. Adopt a single idea, a single Symbol; Individualizing the adversary into a single enemy. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • In Petrograd, here in Moscow, and in other cities and industrial centres, proletarian women showed up splendidly during the revolution. We would not have won without them, or hardly. That is my opinion. What courage they showed and how courageous they still are! (Lenin)

      • I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just ‘a mistake here and there’, but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. (Grover Furr)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of “super-revolutionary” acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. (Stalin)

      • If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell)

      • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. (Mao Zedong)

      • No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich)

      • We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. (Emmeline Pankhurst)

      • A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)

      • The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Lenin)

      • But every class struggle is a political struggle. (Karl Marx)

      • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall. (Wolfe Tone)

      • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Henry Clay)

      • To tell the truth is revolutionary. (Gramsci)

      • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard)

      • If you stop struggling, then you stop life. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. (Johann Most)

      • I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. (Howard Zinn)

      • Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. (Booker T. Washington)

      • The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. (Dario Fo)

      • Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)

      • Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited. (Lenin)

      • Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)

      • Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. (Lenin)

      • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. (John Adams)

      • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plátōn)

      • When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. (Aleida Guevara March)

      • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. (Albert Einstein)

      • A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence. (Kurt Nimmo)

      • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (Henry Louis Mencken)

      • Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. (Andrew Jackson)

      • Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Siddhārtha Gautama)

      • There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Goethe)

      • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington)

      • The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Edmund Burke)

      • War is the continuation of Politik by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz)

      • If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the “American dream”-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. (Henry Kissinger)

      • A popular method always used by the bourgeois press in every country with unerring effect is to lie, scream, raise a hullabaloo, and keep on reiterating lies on the off-chance that “something may stick”. (Lenin)

      • … the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. (Howard Zinn)

      • One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. (Michael Parenti)

      • Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. (Karl Marx)

      • In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. (Che Guevara)

      • Not even the dead can rest in peace in an oppressed country. (Fidel Castro)

      • There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. (Sir William Pitt)

      • 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. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state. (Lenin)

      • 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. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The bourgeois intellectuals, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, are true to themselves in serving capital and in continuing to use absolutely false arguments. (Lenin)

      • Aside from the few who have jobs or professions, the women of the bourgeoisie do not take part in social production. They are nothing but co-consumers of the surplus value their men extort from the proletariat. They are parasites of the parasites of the social body. And consumers are usually even more rabid and cruel in defending their “right” to a parasite’s life than the direct agents of class rule and exploitation. The history of all great revolutionary struggles confirms this in a horrible way. Take the great French Revolution. After the fall of the Jacobins, when Robespierre was driven in chains to the place of execution the naked whores of the victory-drunk bourgeoisie danced in the streets, danced a shameless dance of joy around the fallen hero of the Revolution. And in 1871, in Paris, when the heroic workers’ Commune was defeated by machine guns, the raving bourgeois females surpassed even their bestial men in their bloody revenge against the suppressed proletariat. The women of the property-owning classes will always fanatically defend the exploitation and enslavement of the working people by which they indirectly receive the means for their socially useless existence. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Won’t let anyone speak badly of Stalin. Russia, today is still living on borrowed time thanks to his vision. (Daniel Estulin)

      • The working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. (Karl Marx)

      • American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It’s harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other. (Philip Agee)

      • We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • … the United States [is] cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World. (John Stockwell)

      • A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. (Joseph Pulitzer)

      • An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. (Samuel Adams)

      • There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. (Daniel K. Inouye)

      • If they do it it’s terrorism, if we do it, it’s fighting for freedom. (Anthony Quainton)

      • It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. (Aung San Suu Kyi)

      • When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. (Ralph Nader)

      • It is only when a society shares caring values that its people can feel secure. (Michael Lerner)

      • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. (Noam Chomsky)

      • We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. (Joel Bleifuss)

      • I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. (Gore Vidal)

      • For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. (Che Guevara)

      • Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from view. She told the poor what life is about. And so now the rich have rubbed her out. (Epitaph 1919 – poem about Luxemburg after she was killed by right-wing death squads in 1919) (Bertolt Brecht)

      • 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. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • 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. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilisation,’ when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends. But to us the reason is obvious. Theoretical differences, amongst those fighting against oppression, is a luxury which cannot be afforded. What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and as their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us. They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society. Because of this, there are many Africans who today tend to equate freedom with communism. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Kautsky has made increasingly rapid progress in this art of being a Marxist in words and a lackey of the bourgeoisie in deeds, until he has become a virtuoso at it. (Lenin)

      • A revolution not guided by a correct idea, theory and method is doomed to go off course and wander like a ship without a compass. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Stalin does not seek honours. He loathes pomp. He is averse to public displays. He could have all the nominal regalia in the chest of a great state. But he prefers the background. (Issac Don Levine)

      • I could have gone on flying through space forever. (Yuri Gagarin)

      • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero. (Voltaire)

      • In the form that it emerged at the turn of the century and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the fascist ideology represented a synthesis of organic nationalism with the antimaterialist revision of Marxism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth. (Antonio Negri)

      • To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. (Lenin)

      • We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. (Lenin)

      • They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. (Malcolm X)

      • Marxism is always moving, is always growing. It is the exact opposite of a ready-made, fixed body of dogmas as its enemies always present it. It cannot be that because it is an interpretation of the real world. The real world is always changing and moving, and therefore the theory has always to develop with the development of the real world. Marxism can never stand still. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Trotsky’s “permanent revolution” was a project of the British Empire. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. (Fidel Castro)

      • You have to make clear that it’s social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • [The] Soviet government is the expression of the most complete and most fully developed democracy. At the same time, it is the expression of the dictatorship of the working class, which secures the very possibility of democracy for the people. Soviet democracy and proletarian dictatorship are two aspects of one and the same phenomenon. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Why can the rulers of the most advanced “civilised” capitalist states offer to the people nothing but unlimited barbarism, destruction, economic chaos, spreading famine and disease, terror and slaughter? (R. Palme Dutt)

      • For all arms with which to fight must be drawn from society as it is and the fatal conditions of this struggle have the misfortune of not being easily adapted to the idealistic fantasies which these doctors in social science have exalted as divinities, under the names of Freedom, Autonomy, Anarchy. (Karl Marx)

      • And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class — consequently, it is capitalism’s main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. (Stalin)

      • The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching (plan), nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (Carroll Quigley)

      • When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. (Frédéric Bastiat)

      • When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error. The beneficiaries are the institutions whose power we so disguise. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • For it was after Stalin that the Russian state began to fall into its present state of decay. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Fascism aims at the most unbridled exploitation of the masses, but it approaches them with the most artful anti-capitalist demagogy, taking advantage of the deep hatred of the working people against the plundering bourgeoisie, the banks, trusts and financial magnates, and advancing those slogans which at the given moment are most alluring to the politically immature masses. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome! (Fidel Castro)

      • Central to all the disquisitions of the self-determination opponents is the claim that it is generally “unachievable” under capitalism or imperialism. (Lenin)

      • The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind, because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation to liberate mankind, and to ensure peace and prosperity to all. (Nelson Mandela)

      • To become the ruling class and defeat the bourgeoisie for good the proletariat must be schooled, because the skill this implies does not come ready-made. The proletariat must do its learning in the struggle, and stubborn, desperate struggle in earnest is the only meal teacher. The greater the extremes of the exploiters’ resistance, the more vigorously, firmly, ruthlessly and successfully will they be suppressed by the exploited. The more varied the exploiters’ attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination, and cut the very ground which could (and had to) breed wage-slavery, mass poverty and the profiteering and effrontery of the money-bags. (Lenin)

      • Socialism or barbarism! (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • This vagueness and ambiguity of conventional common places to describe its basic aims is not accidental in Fascism, but inherent and inevitable. This terminology is the standard vague and deceitful terminology of all capitalist parties to cover the realities of class-rule and class-exploitation under empty phrases of “the community,” “the national welfare,” “the State above classes,” etc. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of renewal. It is necessary to constantly issue new information and arguments at a rate such that when the adversary responds the public is already interested in something else. The adversary’s responses should never be able to counteract the increasing level of accusations. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The British ruling class are not fighting to liberate the people of Europe from fascism and reaction. They have always been, for a century and a-half, the main stranglers of every popular revolution in every country. The war aims of Churchill, for which the British workers; are asked to die, are the war aims of British imperialism; to protect and maintain the domination of the British Empire over a-quarter of the world; to smash the rival German imperialism and inflict a new super-Versailles; to maintain the reactionary interests of capitalist class rule against the world Socialist Revolution. There is nothing they fear more than a real popular revolution in Europe, which they know would lead to the victory of Socialism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Thereby I state that we are extremely interested in not letting eastern nations unite. On the contrary, we must spit them into small groups and branches. As for separate nations, we are not going to allow them to get closer and bigger, let alone allowing them to cultivate the sense of national identity and culture. Quite the contrary, we are concerned with splintering them into numerous small groups… (Heinrich Himmler)

      • If you throw a stone, it’s a crime. If a thousand stones are thrown, that’s political. If you set fire to a car it’s a crime; if a hundred cars are set on fire that’s political. (Ulrike Meinhof)

      • Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa)

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      By now, we have all seen the shocking images of the Amazon rainforest, the ‘lungs of the earth’ up in flames, while at the same time we watch as western government’s pay minor lip service and argue about responsibility and use trendy hashtags to boost their own personal popularity.  The fact of the matter is,Continue reading "Amazon Rainforest: Capitalism is not compatible with Environmental Sustainability"
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      • Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave. (Blade Runner)

      • It is necessary to create organs which are able to include the whole proletariat, together with all those exploited under capitalism (peasants and soldiers) in one great mass and lead them into battle. These organs – Soviets – are, within bourgeois society, already essentially weapons of the proletariat organizing itself as a class. Once they exist revolution is on the agenda. For as Marx said: ‘The class organization of revolutionary elements presupposes the completion of all the forces of production which can ever develop in the womb of the old society.’ (György Lukács)

      • This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy. (Golda Meir)

      • The intellectual origins of Fascism share central tenets with the Non-Marxist Left. (Thomas Weber)

      • (The Great Depression resulting from the Stock Market crash) was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence….The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us all. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to. (Golda Meir)

      • No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. (Edward R. Murrow)

      • The Trotskyists are not only the enemies of Communism, they are also the enemies of democracy and of progress. They are the most infamous traitors and spies. (Ho Chi Minh)

      • Millions want to be informed. Terror is based on lack of communication. Break the isolation. Feel again the moral satisfaction of an act of freedom. Defeat the terror. Circulate this information. (Rodolfo Walsh)

      • Elanor Roosevelt: How many men have you killed? Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Not one man… Fascists… 309. (Lyudmila Pavlichenko)

      • Plunder of foreign territory, seizure and spoliation of colonies and the capture of new markets had many times already served as causes of wars of conquest waged by capitalist states. (Stalin)

      • Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them. (David Ricardo)

      • Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave? (Joe Hill)

      • Principle of the method of contagion. Gathering various adversaries into a single category or individual; The adversaries must be constituted in an individualized sum. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. (Simón Bolívar)

      • The state apparatus, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument by which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument for the oppression of antagonistic classes, it is violence and not “benevolence”. “You are not benevolent!” Quite so. We definitely do not apply a policy of benevolence to the reactionaries and towards the reactionary activities of the reactionary classes. Our policy of benevolence is applied only within the ranks of the people, not beyond them to the reactionaries or to the reactionary activities of reactionary classes. (Mao Zedong)

      • The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. (Hermann Göring)

      • All oppressed people are authorized, wherever they can, to rise and break their fetters. (JFK)

      • What is obtained through violence can only be kept through violence. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • You have the clocks, we have the time. (Afghan proverb) (Anónimo)

      • There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, “I disagree.” We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect President. (Natalie Merchant)

      • We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. (Edward R. Murrow)

      • In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. (Michael McFaul)

      • Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. (Wynton Marsalis)

      • Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. (Lenin)

      • The seed of revolution is repression. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution. (Fred Hampton)

      • The real revolution happened when people started using the internet to fight corruption and oppression. (Mark Zuckerberg)

      • If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. (Noam Chomsky)

      • History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. (Karl Marx)

      • I hate victims who respect their executioners. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. (Lenin)

      • Revolution begins with the self, in the self. (Toni Cade Bambara)

      • Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. (Howard Zinn)

      • The object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. (George Orwell)

      • In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. (Bakunin)

      • The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. (Ernst Toller)

      • If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. (Che Guevara)

      • And so in capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority. (Lenin)

      • The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. (Albert Einstein)

      • I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. (Buckminster Fuller)

      • The penalty good men suffer for not getting involved in public affairs is being ruled by evil men. (Plátōn)

      • Che’s life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children….This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from an iron cross. (Dwight Eisenhower)

      • I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. (J. Edgar Hoover)

      • The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. (James Madison)

      • Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • There was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. (Sōkrátēs)

      • Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it. (George Bernard Shaw)

      • To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (George Washington)

      • It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. (Albert Einstein)

      • Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive! (Marianne Faithfull)

      • A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Fascism is capitalism plus murder. (Upton Sinclair)

      • The capitalists always go to every possible extreme of violence to crush socialism. (William Z. Foster)

      • I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium.… Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors. (Andrew Carnegie)

      • We observe that nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom. (Roger Ebert)

      • Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. (Karl Marx)

      • Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism’. I’m afraid, based on my own long experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. (Huey Long)

      • Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. (Malcolm X)

      • No one who knows the American capitalist class, with its long record of war aggression, brutality in strikes, slaughter of workers in industry, persecution against the Negro people, etc., can doubt but that the reactionaries would use every available means of Social-Democratic treachery and of outright violence to prevent or destroy any government that cut into their rule and into their robbery of the people. (William Z. Foster)

      • The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • To be internationalist is to pay off our own debt to humanity. Whoever is not able to fight for others will never be able to fight for himself. (Fidel Castro)

      • Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. (Robert Green Ingersoll)

      • I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • 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. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • Social fascism [that is, Social Democracy]… is the weapon-bearer of the fascist dictatorship. It is very difficult to maintain the line of separation between the development of a social fascist dictatorship when it has reached the stage, as in Germany, of a Social Democratic government using the most reactionary weapons of violence, and the methods of fascist dictatorship. (Ernst Thälmann)

      • The bourgeois gentlemen and their hangers-on, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, who are wont to regard themselves as the representatives of “public opinion”, naturally jeer at the hopes of the Communists, call those hopes “a baobab tree in a mignonette pot”, sneer at the insignificance of the number of suhbotniks compared with the vast number of cases of thieving, idleness, lower productivity, spoilage of raw materials and finished goods, etc. Our reply to these gentlemen is that if the bourgeois intellectuals had dedicated their knowledge to assisting the working people instead of giving it to the Russian and foreign capitalists in order to restore their power, the revolution would have proceeded more rapidly and more peacefully. But this is utopian, for the issue is decided by the class struggle, and the majority of the intellectuals gravitate towards the bourgeoisie. Not with the assistance of the intellectuals will the proletariat achieve victory, but in spite of their opposition (at least in the majority of cases), removing those of them who are incorrigibly bourgeois, reforming, re-educating and subordinating the waverers, and gradually winning ever larger sections of them to its side. Gloating over the difficulties and setbacks of the revolution, sowing panic, preaching a return to the past—these are all weapons and methods of class struggle of the bourgeois intellectuals. The proletariat will not allow itself to be deceived by them. (Lenin)

      • The entire Western history of Stalin is based on lies. They hate him because on 3 separate occasions he pre-emptied their plans. (Daniel Estulin)

      • I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. (General Smedley Butler)

      • Imperialism today is taking place in the context of…the ‘universalization’ of capitalism. It is not now primarily a matter of territorial conquest or direct military or colonial control. It is not now a matter of capitalist powers invading non-capitalist powers in order to bleed them dry directly and by brute force. Now it is more a matter of ensuring that the forces of the capitalist market prevail in every corner of the world (even if this means marginalizing and impoverishing parts of it), and of manipulating those market forces to the advantage of the most powerful capitalist economies and the United States in particular.” … “Military force is still central to the imperialist project, in some ways more than ever. (Ellen Meiksins-Wood)

      • We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn. (John Stockwell)

      • We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. (John Swinton)

      • Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. (James Bovard)

      • We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. (David Rockefeller)

      • The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. (Harold Pinter)

      • Today in America [is]… the development of a permanent war establishment by a privately incorporated economy inside a political vacuum. (C. Wright Mills)

      • Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead)

      • War is the biggest business in America. (Jim Garrison)

      • [T]here seems to be nothing to prevent the transnational corporations taking possession of the planet and subjecting humanity to the dictatorship of capital…. In order to crush any thought of organized resistance to the supporters of the new world order, tremendous police and military forces are being used to establish a doctrine of repression…. (Christian la Brie)

      • One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change. (David Barsamian)

      • The corporation is not a person and it does not live. It is a lifeless bundle of legally protected financial rights and relationships brilliantly designed to serve money and its imperatives. It is money that flows in its veins, not blood. The corporation has neither soul nor conscience. (David Korten)

      • The West, with its imperialist cannibals, has become a breeding ground of darkness and slavery. (Stalin)

      • The founding fathers were not interested in democracy, in fact, in a country with 3 1/4 million people, which is about what we were at the time of the separation from England, only 700, 000 people could vote—white males of property. So it’s never been terribly democratic. …and they put together a constitution which would protect property for all time. No nonsense about democracy! (Gore Vidal)

      • Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. (Albert Einstein)

      • Men create gods after their own image, not only in regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. (Aristotélēs)

      • 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. (Thomas Sankara)

      • Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. (Kim Il Sung)

      • Those who only pursue their own pleasure cry and laugh because of money, but those who wage revolution seek their self-worth, pleasure, happiness and honour and feel dignity and pride in devoting themselves to the benefit of their community and posterity. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Stalin was no tyrant, no despot. He was a man of principle; he was just, modest and very kindly and considerate towards people, the cadres and his colleagues. (Enver Hoxha)

      • Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism. (Thomas Mann)

      • Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police State as the source of order, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive State the unlimited master of society. (Lew Rockwell)

      • An ever subtler falsification of Marxism, an ever subtler presentation of anti-materialist doctrines under the guise of Marxism—this is the characteristic feature of modern revisionism in political economy, in questions of tactics and in philosophy generally, both in epistemology and in sociology. (Lenin)

      • The multitude is the real productive force of our social world, whereas Empire is a mere apparatus of capture that lives only off the vitality of the multitude — as Marx would say, a vampire regime of accumulated dead labor that survives only by sucking off the blood of the living. (Antonio Negri)

      • Civilization is a scar tissue from a past of violence and destruction. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The recent spate of disasters has translated into such spectacular profits that many people around the world have come to the same conclusion: the rich and powerful must be deliberately causing the catastrophes so that they can exploit them. (Naomi Klein)

      • The war of 1914-18 was imperialist (that is, an annexationist, predatory, war of plunder) on the part of both sides; it was a war for the division of the world, for the partition and repartition of colonies and spheres of influence of finance capital. (Lenin)

      • Democracy means equality. The great significance of the proletariat’s struggle for equality and of equality as a slogan will be clear if we correctly interpret it as meaning the abolition of classes. But democracy means only formal equality. And as soon as equality is achieved for all members of society in relation to ownership of the means of production, that is, equality of labor and wages, humanity will inevitably be confronted with the question of advancing father, from formal equality to actual equality, i.e., to the operation of the rule “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”. (Lenin)

      • All the literature of Reformism — of the so-called “British School of Socialism’’ or “Evolutionary Socialism” or “Demo- cratic Socialism” — without exception rests on the permanent assumption of the Empire. The vast overseas tribute income is taken for granted. The problem is seen as one of “distribution.” Just as Churchill, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, openly proclaimed the social services to be based on the overseas investment income, so Reformism assumes the same permanent basis for its social services and proclaims the outcome as the “Welfare State.” (R. Palme Dutt)

      • 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. (Karl Marx)

      • Because it is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • A decadent material life, a poor mental and cultural life and a reactionary political life—these can be said to be the main characteristics of capitalist society, and they show the anti-popular nature and corruption of modern imperialism. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Soviet democracy ensures the domination in society of the will of the majority of the workers and peasants, the majority of the working people, as participants in the administration of the state. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • This is no time for pessimism. This is no time for impotent pacifist lamentations, or for passive acceptance of this shipwreck of human society. We must act, if mankind is not to be destroyed. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Many think that imperialist pacifism is an instrument of peace. That is absolutely wrong. Imperialist pacifism is an instrument for the preparation of war and for disguising this preparation by hypocritical talk of peace. Without this pacifism and its instrument, the League of Nations, preparation for war in the conditions of today would be impossible. (Stalin)

      • The revolution is not carried on the lips to live by it, it is carried in the heart to die for it. (Che Guevara)

      • A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • I discovered that though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • The Party is the highest form of class organisation of the proletariat. (Stalin)

      • The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees. (Enver Hoxha)

      • Of course, most of the Labour Party’s members are working- men. However, whether or not a party is really a political party of the workers does not depend solely upon a mem- bership of workers but also upon the men that lead it, and the content of its actions and its political tactics. Only this latter determines whether we really have before us a political party of the proletariat. Regarded from this, the only correct, point of view, the Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party, because, although made up of workers, it is led by reactionaries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act quite in the spirit of the bourgeoisie. It is an organisation of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers with the aid of the British Noskes and Scheidemanns. (Lenin)

      • Yes I am a communist and consider it one of the greatest honours because we are struggling for the total liberation of the human race. (Angela Davis)

      • Principle of orchestration. The propaganda should be limited to a small number of ideas and repeated tirelessly, presented again and again from different perspectives but always converging on the same concept. No cracks or doubts. From here comes the famous phrase: “If a lie repeats itself enough, it becomes truth.” (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The subjection of women has always been inseparably bound up with class-society, and is one of the indispensable foundations without which private-property society could not maintain itself. Capitalism has taken over from the preceding period and adapted to its own purposes the social institutions built on the subjection of women. While revolutionising and organising production and trade on a gigantic scale throughout the world, it maintained, preserved and even intensified in a still more limited and narrow form the primitive and anarchic basis of the small-scale individual household, of the family and its ties, and sought to make of this pre-capitalist institution its most powerful conservative pillar of support. Only on this basis could capitalism, with its complete individualist cash-nexus repudiation of all social obligations and ties, nevertheless successfully maintain itself, and through the institution of the family throw off its own shoulders all social responsibility for the proper conditions of motherhood, of the bringing up of children, of the support of the sick and the aged, as well as the enormous volume of so-called “domestic labour”—all socially necessary labour indispensable for the maintenance of society, but offering no profit for capitalism to organise, and thrown off as unpaid labour on to the shoulders of the working-class wives and mothers to be performed in the heaviest, dirtiest, most unproductive and wasteful pre-machine conditions alongside highly organised large-scale machine industry in the world outside. The consequent economic and social institutions, involving the subjection of women and the forcible compulsion of the majority of women to economic dependence on marriage as their sole means of livelihood, are bound up with the existence of private-property society, and can only be ended with communist social organisation. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The bourgeois democrats and reformists argue that Fascism is the consequence of Communism. “The fear of the dictatorship of the working class has evoked the iron dictatorship of Capitalism and Nationalism. Reaction on the ‘Right’ has bred reaction on the ‘Left.’ Reaction of the ‘Left’ is displaced by triumphant reaction of the ‘Right’ (Labour Manifesto on “Democracy versus Dictatorship,” March 1933). From this they draw the conclusion, expressed in many Labour speeches: “To defeat Fascism, root out Communism.” This line is expressed in the abstract slogan ‘ ‘Democracy versus Dictatorship,” presented without reference to class-relations: that is, in practice, defence of the existing capitalist state (with its increasing Fascist tendencies) against the working-class revolution, under cover of the plea of defence against the Fascist danger. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Where lies the way out of the hell of present-day life, in which the wolfish law of exploitation, oppression and violence holds sway? The way out lies in the idea of a life which is based on harmony, a full life enjoyed by the whole of society, by all mankind; the way out is in the idea of socialism, the idea of solidarity of the working people. (Felix Dzerzhinsky)

      • Down with the liars who are talking of freedom and equality for all, while there is an oppressed sex, while there are oppressor classes, while there is private ownership of capital, of shares, while there are the well-fed with their surplus of bread who keep the hungry in bondage. Not freedom for all, not equality for all, but a fight against the oppressors and exploiters, the abolition of every possibility of oppression and exploitation-that is our slogan! Freedom and equality for the oppressed sex! Freedom and equality for the workers, for the toiling peasants! A fight against the oppressors, a fight against the capitalists, a fight against the profiteering kulaks! (Lenin)

      • Above all, the worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his. Everything that is published is influenced by one idea: that of serving the dominant class, and which is ineluctably translated into a fact: that of combating the laboring class. And in fact, from the first to the last line the bourgeois newspaper smells of and reveals this preoccupation. (Gramsci)

      • Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more. (Ulrike Meinhof)

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    Noam Chomsky: It is not the case as the naive might think that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, rather . . . it's the essence of democracy. The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn't much matter because you've got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can't control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem—it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don't have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes3/#quotenr6832
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      • The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. (Albert Einstein)

      • When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is – The Fed has usurped the government. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to ‘preserve’ private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism. (Ayn Rand)

      • Communists the world over are wiser than the bourgeoisie, they understand the laws governing the existence and development of things, they understand dialectics and they can see farther. The bourgeoisie does not welcome this truth because it does not want to be overthrown. To be overthrown is painful and is unbearable to contemplate for those overthrown, for example, for the Kuomintang reactionaries whom we are now overthrowing and for Japanese imperialism which we together with other peoples overthrew some time ago. But for the working class, the labouring people and the Communist Party the question is not one of being overthrown, but of working hard to create the conditions in which classes, state power and political parties will die out very naturally and mankind will enter the realm of Great Harmony. (Mao Zedong)

      • There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist. (Golda Meir)

      • When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And “propaganda” got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words “public relations”. (Edward Bernays)

      • The imperialist bourgeoisie systematically bribed the upper stratum of skilled workers, the so-called labour aristocracy, by means of higher wages and other sops, using for this purpose part of the profits it derived from the colonies, from the exploitation of backward countries. This section of workers had produced quite a number of trade union and cooperative leaders, members of municipal and parliamentary bodies, journalists and functionaries of Social-Democratic organizations. When the war broke out, these people, fearing to lose their positions, became foes of revolution and most zealous defenders of their own bourgeoisies, of their own imperialist governments. (Stalin)

      • It is David Ricardo’s unique position in history that he was an innovating force in both capitalist and socialist thought. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. (Edward Bernays)

      • Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual. And if liberty is to be the attribute of the real man, and not of that abstract puppet envisaged by individualistic Liberalism, Fascism is for liberty. And for the only liberty which can be a real thing, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State. Therefore, for the Fascist, everything is in the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. (Mussolini)

      • Under imperialism the powerful capitalist associations (monopolies) and the banks acquired a dominant position in the life of the capitalist states. Finance capital became master in the capitalist states. Finance capital demanded new markets, the seizure of new colonies, new fields for the export of capital, new sources of raw material. (Stalin)

      • Workingmen of all countries, unite,\ Side by side we for freedom will fight:\ When the world and its wealth we have gained\ To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain:\ You will eat, bye and bye,\ When you’ve learned how to cook and to fry\ Chop some wood, ’twill do you good,\ And you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye. (Joe Hill)

      • Fascism is the violent attempt of decaying capitalism to defeat the proletarian revolution and forcibly retard its own demise. Fascism uses demagogy as a science for it dare not declare its aims openly, for it could build no mass support on the basis of its real aims. (Harpal Brar)

      • We are the opposite of the political parties of the bourgeoisie. They are afraid to speak of the extinction of classes, state power and parties. We, on the contrary, declare openly that we are striving hard to create the very conditions which will bring about their extinction. The leadership of the Communist Party and the state power of the people’s dictatorship are such conditions. Anyone who does not recognize this truth is no communist. (Mao Zedong)

      • When a man reaches old age, he will die; the same is true of a party. When classes disappear, all instruments of class struggle — parties and the state machinery — will lose their function, cease to be necessary, therefore gradually wither away and end their historical mission; and human society will move to a higher stage. (Mao Zedong)

      • The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

      • Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. Freedom and justice must be struggled for by the oppressed of all lands and races… (A. Philip Randolph)

      • Every rebellion implies some kind of unity. (Camus)

      • We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. (Harriet Tubman)

      • The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. (Che Guevara)

      • When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. (Fidel Castro)

      • Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. (Che Guevara)

      • An Ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. (Noam Chomsky)

      • Better to fight for something than live for nothing. (George Patton)

      • A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • No real social change has ever been brought about without a Revolution… Revolution is thought carried into action. (Emma Goldman)

      • Socialism is the science of example. (Che Guevara)

      • Truth is on the side of the oppressed. (Malcolm X)

      • Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to change the world. (Harriet Tubman)

      • I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world. (Charles Malik)

      • The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament. (Lenin)

      • Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money. (Daniel Webster)

      • Be the change you want to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. (Felix Frankfurter)

      • Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. (The American Heritage Dictionary, 1983) (Anónimo)

      • A man of profound ideals, a man in whose mind stirred the dream of struggle. (Fidel Castro)

      • “It was never pleasing to the Romans, that a general should be killed by his own soldiers” or in another version more common in modern Portugal and Spain “Rome does not pay traitors who kill their chief”. (Quintus Servilius Caepio)

      • The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood. (Aurelius Augustinus)

      • When tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign foe. (James Madison)

      • Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. (Dresden James)

      • Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. (George Bernard Shaw)

      • The most heinous and the cruelest crimes of which history has recorded have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway)

      • The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. (Honoré de Balzac)

      • The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces. (Michael Parenti)

      • Religion is the opium of the masses. (Karl Marx)

      • If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it. (Edward Bernays)

      • There are no such things as classes: they cannot be. Class means caste and caste means race. (Hitler)

      • People are often told about democracy by those who deny it on their own soil. (Fidel Castro)

      • A slave who has become conscious of his slavery and has risen to struggle for his emancipation has already half ceased to be a slave. (Lenin)

      • There are more prisoners in US penal system today than there ever were in Soviet camps. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Trotsky is the whore of fascism. (Gramsci)

      • The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality. (Holly Sklar)

      • Among Latin American elites, a peasant asking for a higher wage or a priest helping organize a peasant cooperative is a communist. And someone going so far as to suggest land reform or a more equitable tax system is a communist fanatic. There is no word or act suggesting the desirability of elite generosity toward the poor, or the need for education, organization or material advance for the majority, that has not been branded communistic in Latin America in recent decades. … Since communism is the enemy and peasants trying to improve themselves, priests with the slightest humanistic proclivity, and naturally anyone seriously challenging the status quo, are communists, they are also, by definition, enemies. (Edward Herman)

      • One might call this the “Third World War.” It is a war that has been fought by the United States against the Third World. Others call it the Cold War and focus on the anti-Communist and anti-Soviet rationales, but the dead are not Soviets; they are people of the Third World. It might also be called the Forty-Year War, like the Thirty-Year and Hundred-Year Wars in Europe, for this one began when the CIA was founded in 1947 and continues today. Altogether, perhaps twenty million people died in the Cold War. As wars go, it has been the second or third most destructive of human life in all of history, after World War I and World War II. (John Stockwell)

      • We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters. (Uri Lubrani)

      • The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word ‘no’. (Churchill)

      • And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Nietzsche)

      • It is not the case as the naive might think that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, rather . . . it’s the essence of democracy. The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn’t much matter because you’ve got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can’t control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem—it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don’t have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion. (Noam Chomsky)

      • … somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. (John Foster Dulles)

      • We enjoy the economic stability that the Armed Forces guarantee us. This [economic] plan can be fulfilled dispite its lack of popular support. It has sufficient political support … that provided buy the Armed Forces. (Martinez de Hoz)

      • They are going to arrest us all and execute us for Shell. (Ken Saro-Wiwa)

      • We stand for the maintenance of private property… We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. (Hitler)

      • The U.S. public is depoliticized, poorly informed on foreign affairs … and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with “another Hitler”. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts … the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war. (Edward Herman)

      • History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system. (Edward Herman)

      • Now we have a totalitarian government. And the totalitarian government wants to watch everybody, total surveillance of everyone. They listen to the telephone conversations, they look at your credit cards, they look where you travel. We are totally policed. This is contrary to everything in our Constitution. (Gore Vidal)

      • There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders. (Curtis LeMay)

      • Socialism means the abolition of classes. The dictatorship of the proletariat has done all it could to abolish classes. But classes cannot be abolished at one stroke. And classes still remain and will remain in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The dictatorship will become unnecessary when classes disappear. Without the dictatorship of the proletariat they will not disappear. Classes have remained, but in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat every class has undergone a change, and the relations between the classes have also changed. The class struggle does not disappear under the dictatorship of the proletariat; it merely assumes different forms. Under capitalism the proletariat was an oppressed class, a class which had been deprived of the means of production, the only class which stood directly and completely opposed to the bourgeoisie, and therefore the only one capable of being revolutionary to the very end. Having overthrown the bourgeoisie and conquered political power, the proletariat has become the ruling class; it wields state power, it exercises control over means of production already socialised; it guides the wavering and intermediary elements and classes; it crushes the increasingly stubborn resistance of the exploiters. All these are specific tasks of the class struggle, tasks which the proletariat formerly did not and could not have set itself. The class of exploiters, the landowners and capitalists, has not disappeared and cannot disappear all at once under the dictatorship of the proletariat. The exploiters have been smashed, but not destroyed. They still have an inter national base in the form of international capital, of which they are a branch. They still retain certain means of production in part, they still have money, they still have vast social connections. Because they have been defeated, the energy of their resistance has increased a hundred and a thousandfold. The “art” of state, military and economic administration gives them a superiority, and a very great superiority, so that their importance is incomparably greater than their numerical proportion of the population. The class struggle waged by the overthrown exploiters against the victorious vanguard of the exploited, i.e., the proletariat, has become incomparably more bitter. And it cannot be otherwise in the case of a revolution, unless this concept is replaced (as it is by all the heroes of the Second International) by reformist illusions. (Lenin)

      • Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people. (Mao Zedong)

      • The struggle between socialism and capitalism is the struggle between collectivism and individualism and the superiority of socialism over capitalism is the superiority of collectivism over individualism. (Kim Jong-il)

      • 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. (Michael Parenti)

      • The role of a newspaper, however, is not limited solely to the dissemination of ideas, to political education, and to the enlistment of political allies. A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser. (Lenin)

      • Fascism began as a rejection of the idea that reason could be used to understand society and resulted, Sternhell argues, in the formation of a ‘new generation of intellectuals [which] rose violently against the rationalist individuals of liberal society’. These intellectuals absorbed the synthesised socialism and nationalism and thus created a new ideology, ‘a socialism without the proletariat’, which duly became fascism. This ideology Sternhell describes as being ‘a synthesis of organic nationalism and anti-Marxist socialism,…’ (David Renton)

      • The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop)

      • [The] fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class. (Antonio Negri)

      • To Marx, Ricardo was the classic and best representative of bourgeois economics since he articulated the contradictions of bourgeois society without glossing them over. (Russell Jacoby)

      • Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. (Giannina Braschi)

      • If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or China on Russia, and so forth, those would be “just” “defensive” wars, irrespective of who attacked first; and every Socialist would sympathise with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slave-owning, predatory “great” powers. (Lenin)

      • No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. (Lenin)

      • If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. (Haruki Murakami)

      • Defining the superiority of a nation according to biological or ethnic characteristics is the practice of reactionary, bourgeois ethnology. (Kim Jong-il)

      • We have applied the Marxist analysis and method to the contemporary scene. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. (Eric Ambler)

      • The Soviet state represents the expression of the highest possible form of democracy. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Marx’s philosophy is a consummate philosophical materialism which has provided mankind, and especially the working class, with powerful instruments of knowledge. (Lenin)

      • Fascist rebelliousness always occurs where fear of the truth turns a revolutionary emotion into illusions. (Wilhelm Reich)

      • If the state is the executive committee of the great corporation and the planning system, it is partly because neoclassical economics is its instrument for neutralizing the suspicion that this is so. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The Party possesses all the necessary qualifications for this because, in the first place, it is the rallying centre of the finest elements in the working class, who have direct connections with the non-Party organisations of the proletariat and very frequently lead them; because, secondly, the Party, as the rallying centre of the finest members of the working class, is the best school for training leaders of the working class, capable of directing every form of organisation of their class; because, thirdly, the Party, as the best school for training leaders of the working class, is, by reason of its experience and prestige , the only organisation capable of centralising the leadership of the struggle of the proletariat, thus transforming each and every non-Party organisation of the working class into an auxiliary body and transmission belt linking the Party with the class. (Stalin)

      • It is terribly difficult to do this; we lack the men! But Preobrazhensky comes along and airily says that Stalin has jobs in two Commissariats. Who among us has not sinned in this way? who has not undertaking several duties at once? And how can we do otherwise? What can we do to preserve the Nationalities; to handle all the Turkestan, Caucasian, and other questions? These are all political questions! They have to be settled. These are questions that have engaged the attention of European states for hundreds of years, and only an infinitesimal number of them have been settled in democratic republics. We are settling them; and we need a man to whom the representatives of any of these nations can go and discuss their difficulties in all detail. Where can we find such a man? I don’t think Comrade Preobrazhensky could suggest any better candidate than Comrade Stalin. (Lenin)

      • The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest [number] of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. (Jean Baptiste Colbert)

      • A socialist of any of the oppressor nations (Britain. France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States of America, etc.) who does not recognise and does not struggle for the right of oppressed nations to self-determination (i.e., the right to secession) is in reality a chauvinist, not a socialist. (Lenin)

      • We want to help, not undermine you (Pinochet). You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende. (Henry Kissinger)

      • The workers are surrounded on all sides by such a sea of lies in the bourgeois newspapers that they must fight for the truth at all costs, they must learn to recognise falsehoods and reject them. The erroneous views of the liquidators of the workers’ party must be calmly refuted. (Lenin)

      • Is it possible that a few rich men — a small class of men — have persuaded a million poor men to attack and attempt to destroy another million men as poor as they, so that the rich may be richer still? They told them that this brutal war was the destiny of the race. It was for the glory of the emperor; it was for the honour of the state; it was for their king and country. False — false as hell! They make war to capture markets by murder, raw materials by rape. They find it cheaper to steal than to exchange, easier to butcher than to buy. This is the secret of war. It is the secret of all wars: profit. Business. Profit. Blood money. Threaten a reduction on the profit of their money and the beast in them awakens with a snarl. They become as ruthless as savages, brutal as madmen, remorseless as executioners. (Norman Bethune)

      • We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution -real girls’ talk. (Nina Simone)

      • As long as the organization of schooling stays in the hands of the bourgeoisie, the vocational school will be a weapon directed against the interests of the working class. Only the working class can turn the vocational school into a tool for the transformation of contemporary society. (Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya)

      • I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell. (Hugo Chávez)

      • Principle of vulgarization. All propaganda must be popular, adapting its level to the least intelligent of the individuals to whom it is directed. The larger the mass to convince, the smaller the mental effort to perform. The receptive capacity of the masses is limited and their understanding scarce; Besides, they have great ease to forget. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The traditional tactics and methods of domination of the American bourgeoisie are equally adapted to Fascism, in proportion as occasion arises. If they have not had the same experience as the British bourgeoisie in the domination of colonial peoples, save more recently and on a smaller scale, they have had plenty of experience in their own domain in the suppression of the twelve million Negroes within the United States and of the heavily exploited immigrant populations. The combination of violence, lawlessness and corruption for the maintenance of capitalist domination has reached classic heights in the United States. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when living. Universally true as this statement is, it applies with more than usual point to the revolutionary hero. (James Connolly)

      • All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public functions will lose their political character and will be transformed into the simple administrative functions of watching over the true interests of society. (Karl Marx)

      • We must dare to invent the future. (Thomas Sankara)

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