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Protestation (English) protestation socialism Thursday, 29-Nov-0001 16:00:00 PST
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    Henry Ford: 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. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes6/#quotenr4455
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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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    • Jonathan
    Mathematical Manuscripts p. 111 #ClassWarfare http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/M&E/1881/mathematical-manuscripts/p111.htm
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    • Jonathan
    Putin, Xi Urge End To MAD World. Lord Russell's Spectre Frowns https://gnusocial.no/url/1505277
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    • Jonathan
    We’re in good shape for no deal - official #ClassWarfare https://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/in-good-shape-no-deal-official
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    • Jonathan
    Bristolians campaign for better trains #ClassWarfare https://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/bristolians-campaign-better-trains
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    • Jonathan
    General Douglas MacArthur: 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. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes4/#quotenr4453
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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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      • 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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      • 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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