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Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2019 13:01:07 PDT Protestation (English)
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The Prospects of the C.P.G. and Bolshevisation #ClassWarfare http://marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com/Stalin/PCPG25.html

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TelephoneGate and its Discontents #ClassWarfare https://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/2019/09/telephonegate-and-its-discontents.html
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  Only a person who embraces her or his historical short-sightedness could be aghast at Trump’s self-serving phone call to the president of U...
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A rent-seeking economy? #ClassWarfare http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1269/a-rent-seeking-economy/

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Lenin: 133. TO J. V. STALIN #ClassWarfare https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/19b.htm

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Benjamin Disraeli: Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes7/#quotenr7416
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  By Protestation from Protestation
  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)
  
  Every human being who loves freedom owes to the Red Army more than he will be able to pay in a lifetime! (Ernest Hemingway)
  
  The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U. S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation-if I may use that biological term-that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. (Joseph Schumpeter)
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One small step forward #ClassWarfare http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1269/one-small-step-forward/

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Being ruder than Boris #ClassWarfare http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1269/being-ruder-than-boris/

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Bid for Brexit glory #ClassWarfare http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1269/bid-for-brexit-glory/

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Establishment at an impasse #ClassWarfare http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1269/establishment-at-an-impasse/

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Trump administration seeks to privatize migrant child detention camps #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1696187
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1. Trump administration seeks to privatize migrant child detention camps
  
  By Blake Deppe from People's World
  
  SAN BENITO, Texas (AP) — On a recent day in a remodeled brick church in the Rio Grande Valley, a caregiver tried to soothe a toddler, offering him a sippy cup. The adult knew next to nothing about the little 3-year-old whose few baby words appeared to be Portuguese.
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Haavara Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement

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Letters: Marx-Engels Correspondence 1854 #ClassWarfare http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/M&E/1854/letters/54_10_26.htm

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The affiliates and friends of WFTU are celebrating the WFTU International Action Day around the world on October 3rd, 2019 (photos) #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1696127
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1. The affiliates and friends of WFTU are celebrating the WFTU International Action Day around the world on October 3rd, 2019 (photos)
  
  By central wftu from WFTU
  
  The WFTU Affiliates and friends are celebrating the WFTU foundation on October 3rd 1945 by dedicating this day, the 2019 International Action Day to the struggle against against Xenophobia, Racism and Fascism. The affiliates and friends of WFTU responded to the call of the WFTU Secretariat to organize strikes, demonstrations and other activities to honor the 2019 International Action Day. [espro-slider id=78433]
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3rd October 2019: WFTU INTERNATIONAL ACTION DAY AGAINST XENOPHOBIA, RASCISM AND FASISM #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1696117
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1. 3rd October 2019: WFTU INTERNATIONAL ACTION DAY AGAINST XENOPHOBIA, RASCISM AND FASISM
  
  By central wftu from WFTU
  
  On the occasion of the WFTU foundation anniversary, on October 3rd 1945, the World Federation of Trade Unions is celebrating today the WFTU International Action Day under the slogan: Struggle against Xenophobia, Racism and Fascism. Xenophobia and racism are intentionally raised among the peoples by governments and lobbies, so as to divide them, to make them accuse one another of the problems that are caused by capitalists and multinationals. In Africa, in the Middle East and many other places, the looting of the workers' natural resources, poverty, imperialist wars and conflicts create millions of refugees who fall victims of hatred and racist discriminations. In Europe and on other continents, the economic crisis facilitates the rise of fascist ideologies and actions that poison the mind and consciousness of people, making them to fight for the interests of big businesses, leading them even to crimes. Efforts are being made by the EU to equalize fascism with Socialism, to hide the great conquests that workers had achieved in the USSR and to distort the historical reality. Since its Foundation, the WFTU has placed at the forefront of its demands the struggle for peace and equality, fighting against Apartheid in South Africa, against racial and all types of discriminations. For the rights of all workers, women, migrants and refugees. We firmly continue in the same militant and class-oriented direction and call upon all militant trade unionists all over the world to struggle for the isolation and elimination of xenophobia, racism and fascism, for the peaceful co-existence and prosperity of all workers. Workers have nothing to divide us!
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Argentina: The WFTU Pan-American meeting started on October 2nd in Buenos Aires #ClassWarfare http://www.wftucentral.org/argentina-the-wftu-pan-american-meeting-on-october-2nd-in-buenos-aires/
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1. Argentina: The WFTU Pan-American meeting started on October 2nd in Buenos Aires
  
  By central wftu from WFTU
  
  The WFTU Pan-American meeting started its works of the first day today, October 2nd, in Buenos Aires wth great participation and militant spirit. Many cadres of the International Class oriented trade union movement are taking part in the meeting, exchanging experience of struggle in their region. The WFTU General Secretary, George Mavrikos, is taking also part accompanied by members of the WFTU Secretariat and the Presidential Council. [espro-slider id=78301]
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The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine signs “Steinmeier formula” http://eu.eot.su/2019/10/03/the-trilateral-contact-group-on-ukraine-signs-steinmeier-formula/
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1. The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine signs “Steinmeier formula”
  
  By Avis Krane from Essence of Time
  
  The Envoys in the Trilateral Contact Group on situation in Ukraine signed the “Steinmeier formula”
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ASSPUK, JISGE , UK KFA and BSCPRKP congratulate DPRK on successful SLBM test fire ! #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1696083
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1. ASSPUK, JISGE , UK KFA and BSCPRKP congratulate DPRK on successful SLBM test fire !
  
  ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK email juche007@yahoo.co.uk ...
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Russell Jacoby: Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes7/#quotenr7406
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  By Protestation from Protestation
  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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