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Protestation (English) protestation socialism Thursday, 29-Nov-0001 16:00:00 PST
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  1. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2019 14:44:12 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    Successful National Strike of Bank Employees #ClassWarfare http://www.redglobe.org/en/europe/greece/61613-successful-national-strike-of-bank-employees
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    1. Successful National Strike of Bank Employees
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      On Wednesday, December 11, took place a big and successful National Strike of Bank Employees against the announced layoffs of bank employees. The big banks announced a series of measures in order to advance their competitiveness. These measures include shutting down of branches and whole departments, expansion of outsourcing, imposition of more flexible working relations and layoffs.
  2. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2019 14:23:28 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    Ralph Nader: When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes5/#quotenr6874
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      • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. (Yizhak Shamir)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      • Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Lenin)

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

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

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

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

      • To tell the truth is revolutionary. (Gramsci)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      • And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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

      • If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      • You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights…Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. (Thomas Sankara)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      • Socialism or barbarism! (Rosa Luxemburg)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    • Jonathan
    Schelling and Revelation by Frederick Engels #ClassWarfare http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/M&E/1841/anti-schelling/ch04.htm
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    In memory of two girls #ClassWarfare http://juche007-anglo-peopleskoreafriendship.blogspot.com/2019/12/in-memory-of-two-girls.html
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      By Protestation from Protestation

      • 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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    ICCSS statement on the 8th anniversary of the passing away of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762879
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    A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE – REMEMBERING COMRADE KIM JONG IL by James Taylor, KFA UK. #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762874
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    Speech to the 7th of December meeting Remembering comrade KIM JONG IL a great fighter for independence by Dr Dermot Hudson #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762870
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    HOUSTON: Protests Continue Against Gentrification of East Houston #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762865
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    1. HOUSTON: Protests Continue Against Gentrification of East Houston
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      Photo: An officer attempts to intimidate protesters at “Unsilent Night,” an event put on by gentrifier interests in Houston.

      By Jennifer Kelly

      On December 4, a group of protesters disrupted an event carried out in downtown Houston by the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP), the non-profit organization behind the Buffalo Bayou East Master Plan, a proposal to build a string of extravagant parks along the bayou in an attempt to rapidly accelerate gentrification in East End and Fifth Ward.

      For the second year, BBP, which is largely backed by developers, hosted a Christmas procession from the University of Houston Downtown (UHD), which they described as a “sound sculpture” called “Unsilent Night” during which they would promote the parks on behalf of the developers while attendees played the sounds of chimes, bells, and metallic banging from a phone application.

      “Adventure Park” proposed by Buffalo Bayou Partnership

      Developing public amenities in working-class neighborhoods is a common strategy of the capitalist class in conjunction with city governments to rapidly raise property values and push working-class residents out. These improvements are intended to serve the wealthier gentrifiers that developers and cities seek to attract.

      As the procession left the UHD campus, they were immediately confronted by protesters who blocked the procession with a large banner reading, “Defend East Houston, Expose and Combat Gentrification” before it could enter a trail down the bayou. Protesters gave speeches and passed out flyers and articles explaining BBP’s role in gentrification and the Buffalo Bayou East Master Plan.

      Protesters with banner reading “Defend East Houston, Expose and Combat Gentrification” confonted by police near the start of the event.

      Police immediately jumped into action to defend the event. An officer on a Segway began threatening and ordering the protesters around the park. The procession was blocked for almost fifteen minutes before more officers arrived and took an aggressive stance to protect BBP’s event, threatening the protesters with arrest for chanting in a public park.

      At one point, an intoxicated woman tried to rip the banner from a woman’s hands, grabbing the protester and yelling at her. When another protester stepped in and yelled at her to let go and back off, which she did immediately, the Segway officer became increasingly aggressive, attempting to physically intimidate the protesters and threatening them with assault and arrest, yelling in their faces, “give me a reason.”

      An intoxicated woman approaches protesters, attempting to grab their banner

      The officer’s aggression to a small group of protesters simply speaking and chanting in a park speaks volumes of their role in protecting capitalist development and brutalizing the working class and oppressed nations. As part of the process of gentrifying East End, County Judge and honorary member of BBP Lina Hidalgo, assured prospective gentrifiers at the BBP’s Master Plan announcement celebration in October that she would fight for an increase in police presence and arrests in East End alongside the new developments.

      One organizer of the procession told protesters, “I’m glad I’m rich,” in response to a protester’s call to defend working-class residents from the interests of wealthy developers. She would spend the rest of the night, comfortable under the eyes of police protection, trying to goad protesters into physical confrontation, before finally admitting that protesters had “ruined our night.”

      BBP was able to restart their procession after the officers arrived and became more aggressive, but roughly one-third of the initial attendees did not join them. A large portion of those who left did so in solidarity with the protesters, many of them the working-class families of UHD students, telling protesters that they didn’t know who BBP was until that point.

      Protesters were able to follow the procession for about 20 minutes until it reached its premature end, continuing to chant and speak over the music and speeches of BBP. As BBP was forced to cut their event short, they were intermittently blocked by protesters on their way back down the same route, with police breaking up the protesters to clear the trail.

      Protesters continued to chant and speak over event organizers until the event ended

      As activists continue to put the pressure on BBP, they must go to and rely on the working people of the community. The protest was effective for its limited size, but resistance to the project must mobilize more of the working class and oppressed nations of East Houston and organize against gentrification, blocking the way of capitalists trying to invade their communities at every step.

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    National Factors in Party and State Affairs #ClassWarfare http://marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com/Stalin/NF23.html
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    Nicaragua: Amnesty’s travesty of hypocrisy #ClassWarfare https://thecommunists.org/2019/12/11/news/nicaragua-amnesty-travesty-hypocrisy-media-lies/
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      Another shameful report from those who peddle ‘human rights’ lies to justify imperialist war.
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    Hitler: We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes3/#quotenr6872
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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)

  14. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2019 12:58:23 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    Mujeres Revolucionarias Marchan Contra la Violencia en Toda Europa #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762839
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    1. Mujeres Revolucionarias Marchan Contra la Violencia en Toda Europa
      By incendiarynewsservice from Incendiary

      Foto: Manifestantes en Hamburgo, Alemania llevan una pancarta que dice: “¡No lloran! ¡Atacan!” en la marcha anual del Día para la Eliminación de la Violencia Contra la Mujer

      Este articulo es una traducción.

      Por Griselda Jaimes

      El 25 de noviembre marcó el Día Internacional para la Eliminación de la Violencia Contra la Mujer y mujeres revolucionarias formaron bloques rojos en marchas en Alemania, Suiza y Francia.

      La manifestación en Hamburgo, Alemania, fue convocada por la Liga Internacional de Mujeres, marchando detrás de una pancarta con el lema “¡No lloran! ¡Atacan!” El Comité de Mujeres Rojas de Hamburgo también produjo un video para la ocasión, llamando a las mujeres a movilizarse para la marcha y formar un movimiento de mujeres combativo y con conciencia de clase en Alemania.

      Durante el curso de la marcha, los manifestantes pasaron por Reeperbahn, una calle conocida por tener la mayor concentración de prostitución en Hamburgo. Los manifestantes se detuvieron en el área y dieron discursos denunciando la explotación capitalista de las mujeres.

      Los revolucionarios alemanes marchan por Hamburgo con banderas de martillo y hoz

      La marcha también enfatizó el internacionalismo, expresando solidaridad con las mujeres que luchan en todo el mundo, especialmente en las Guerras Populares en Perú, India, Turquía y Filipinas. Varias organizaciones revolucionarias de Turquía, Irán y otros países también participaron en la acción.

      Los revolucionarios en Zurich, Suiza, también formaron un bloque rojo en una marcha compuesta por unas 600 personas, bajo una pancarta que decía: “¡Contra el imperialismo y el patriarcado!” La manifestación denunció el asesinato de mujeres, así como el imperialismo, la policía, los fascistas “cerdos patriarcales” y otros enemigos de clase.

      Los revolucionarios suizos llevan una pancarta que dice “¡Contra el Imperialismo y el Patriarcado!”

      El bloque de mujeres rojas también distribuyó volantes que decían: “En lugar de llorar por nuestras hermanas asesinadas, luchamos y soltamos nuestra ira como una fuerza poderosa contra el patriarcado.” En un momento, un reaccionario intentó provocar a los manifestantes, y posteriormente fue derrotado con un asta de bandera, demostrando el carácter militante de las mujeres.

      La organización revolucionaria Jeunes Révolutionnaires (Juventud Revolucionaria) también participó en una marcha en la comuna de Aubervilliers, en el suburbio noreste de París. Por todo la marcha organizada por Place Aux Femmes (Lugar para las Mujeres), activistas revolucionarios llevaron banderas de martillo y hoz.

       Revolucionarios franceses marchan contra la violencia contra las mujeres

      Estas manifestaciones importantes movilizaron a las mujeres contra la violencia y la explotación misógina y las revolucionarias enfatizaron la necesidad de que las organizaciones de mujeres proletarias luchen por la liberación. Afirmaron correctamente que es correcto rebelarse contra la opresión de las mujeres y que el lugar de la mujer está en la lucha.

  15. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2019 12:53:06 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    TAMPA: Profesor de HCC Sentenciado por Pornografía Infantil y Filmación Secreta de Estudiantes #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762833
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    1. TAMPA: Profesor de HCC Sentenciado por Pornografía Infantil y Filmación Secreta de Estudiantes
      By incendiarynewsservice from Incendiary

      Foto: Mugshot de Howard Joseph Vorder Bruegge III

      Este artículo es una traducción.

      Por Alon Sulaimani

      El 22 de noviembre, Howard Joseph Vorder Bruegge III, ex profesor de Hillsborough Community College (HCC), fue sentenciado a once y medio años en una prisión federal con una supervisión de 20 años después de ser liberado por la posesión y distribución de pornografía infantil y videos de sus estudiantes varones en el baño.

      Bruegge, de 36 años y en ese momento profesor en HCC, fue arrestado en su casa el 23 de octubre de 2018 por las Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional e Inmigración y el Control de Aduanas (ICE) de los Estados Unidos que descubrió que estaba enviando pornografía infantil a Ottawa, Canadá.

      Después de registrar su casa, los agentes encontraron más de 200 fotos y 47 videos de pornografía infantil. En la corte, Bruegge también admitió haber usado una mirilla para tomar grabaciones de video de sus estudiantes usando los baños, que distribuyó a través de Internet.

      Esta no es la primera vez que un profesor de HCC ha sido sorprendido abusando estudiantes y niños. En 2018, el pastor y maestro David Paul Carson, de 63 años, fue arrestado por violar a una niña de 14 años en Tampa. Desde el arresto, HCC no ha hecho ninguna declaración oficial con respecto a Bruegge, buscando distanciar a la universidad de sus acciones depredadoras en lugar de reconocer el peligro al que expone a sus estudiantes.

      Bruegge renunció a HCC después de su arresto inicial en octubre de 2018. En marzo de este año, se declaró culpable de la posesión y distribución de pornografía infantil, pero recibió una sentencia mucho más ligera que el máximo de 40 años.

      La sentencia ligera fue dada por la falta de evidencia que mostraba que él estaba directamente involucrado en abuso físico de niños, y porque la defensa presentó a Bruegge como una víctima de abuso de drogas y depresión. El psicólogo contratado por la defensa, Peter Bursten, afirmó que sus acciones estaban inspiradas solo en la fantasía y que su riesgo de reincidencia era bajo. Además, citaron una carta de “disculpa” escrita a su familia, y testimonios de amigos, en un esfuerzo por reformular su imagen.

      Los tribunales burgueses no pueden proporcionar justicia ni alivio de las depredaciones de hombres como Bruegge. En casos como este, los tribunales se describen como defensores de la justicia, pero es la justicia burguesa utilizada para aterrorizar, encarcelar y oprimir a los proletariados y a las naciones oprimidas de los Estados Unidos. Del mismo modo, ICE allanó la casa de Bruegge para supuestamente proteger a los niños, pero al mismo tiempo los detiene y los mantiene en jaulas separadas de sus familias en todo Estados Unidos.

      Campañas revolucionarias como las recientes contra el profesor de la Universidad de Texas Sahotra Sarkar demuestran un nuevo tipo de justicia, una justicia proletaria, organizando la indignación justa entre las personas contra el abuso sexual y transformándola en acción, tanto contra los abusadores como contra la sociedad capitalista que les permite.

  16. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2019 12:48:09 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    LOS ÁNGELES: Graffiti en Solidaridad con el Preso Político Indio GN Saibaba #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762829
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    1. LOS ÁNGELES: Graffiti en Solidaridad con el Preso Político Indio GN Saibaba
      By incendiarynewsservice from Incendiary

      Este articulo es una traducción.

      Por Jakob Stein

      Han pasado dos semanas desde que se vieron carteles y grafiti en solidaridad con el preso político indio GN Saibaba en Little Bangladesh, Los Ángeles. El cartel decía: “¡Liberar Camarada GN Saibaba! El camarada GN Saibaba está detenido en confinamiento solitario en Maharashtra, India, por su trabajo revolucionario.” El grafiti decía: “¡Liberen a todos los presos políticos! ¡Hacer la revolución no es un crimen!”

      El cartel dice: “¡Liberar Camarada GN Saibaba! El camarada GN Saibaba está detenido en confinamiento solitario en Maharashtra, India, por su trabajo revolucionario.”

      Grafiti dice: “¡Liberen a todos los presos políticos! ¡Hacer la revolución no es un crimen!”

      Saibaba era profesor de inglés en la Universidad de Delhi cuando fue arrestado inicialmente en mayo de 2014 por presuntos vínculos con el Partido Comunista de India (Maoísta), que actualmente lidera la guerra popular para derrocar al viejo estado reaccionario en India. Se le otorgó la libertad bajo fianza dos veces por razones médicas en 2015 y 2016, pero fue sentenciado a cadena perpetua en marzo de 2017 y desde entonces ha estado en confinamiento solitario.

      La evidencia contra Saibaba es tenue en el mejor de los casos, y muchos creen que su convicción se debe a su postura abierta contra la campaña de asesinato y violación del gobierno indio contra los rebeldes y campesinos maoístas en el campo conocida como Operación Caza Verde.

      Saibaba ha estado en silla de ruedas desde que era un niño pequeño después de contraer polio. Actualmente sufre de al menos 19 dolencias médicas diferentes que requieren un tratamiento integral, algunas de las cuales podrían ser fatales si no se tratan. Desde su confinamiento solitario, su salud se ha deteriorado rápidamente debido a las malas condiciones y al personal de la cárcel que no están capacitados e incapaces de proporcionar la atención médica necesaria.

      Activistas revolucionarios y defensores de los derechos humanos han pedido constantemente la liberación de Saibaba durante años. Su continuo encarcelamiento y su confinamiento solitario demuestran la actitud cruel e inhumana del gobierno indio hacia sus críticos y partidarios de la lucha revolucionaria por la Nueva Democracia.

  17. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2019 12:43:06 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    US and North Korea Trade Threats as Talks Stall #ClassWarfare https://incendiarynews.com/2019/12/11/us-and-north-korea-trade-threats-as-talks-stall/
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    1. US and North Korea Trade Threats as Talks Stall
      By incendiarynewsservice from Incendiary

      Photo: South Korean news program shows an image of North Korea’s rocket engine  ground test during a news program. The banner reads: “Very important test.”

      By Mike Talavera

      On Sunday, North Korean authorities announced on state-run television that they had completed a “very important test” at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground along the Chinese border. Experts have speculated that it was a static engine test, used to test fuel engines with a missile attachment without actually launching them into the air.

      The test is one of several that has occurred since May of this year after the breakdown of negotiations between US President Donald Trump and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un at the Hanoi Summit. Flexing its nuclear weapon capabilities has been one of the few negotiating tactics the DPRK has to push for relief from the extensive sanctions imposed on it by US imperialism.

      After last weekend’s announcement about the test, Trump tweeted that Kim has “far too much to lose” and added that he “does not want to void his special relationship with the President of the United States.”

      In response, Ri Su Yong, the Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the revisionist Workers’ Party of Korea warned that Trump should “think twice if he does not want to see bigger catastrophic consequences.”

      The DPRK’s withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 2003 and its subsequent development of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons has been used by the US to lead other countries in severely restricting trade with North Korea, with some materials necessary for medical and agricultural industries being entirely cut off.

      If it is true that North Korea’s dependence on its limited nuclear program increases the burden on its own people, then it is even more true for US imperialism which stockpiles a massive nuclear arsenal to assert its global dominance. The standoff with North Korea has exposed the people of the US to the same nuclear threat that US imperialism holds over the world. While US imperialists try to exploit this fear of a North Korean intercontinental missile attack to justify sanctions, they cannot stop the masses of the US from rising in response against US aggression.

      It is right to rebel against imperialism, but history has shown that the anti-imperialist fights which succeed rely on people over weapons. Nuclear threats will not liberate the Korean peninsula any more than they will save US imperialism from the wrath of its gravediggers.

      The recent bout of threats between the US and North Korea are taking place in the context of renewed calls for reunification of the Korean peninsula. In August, South Korean President Moon Jae In vowed to set the path for this goal to be accomplished by 2045, primarily through dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

      Neither nuclear blackmail nor denuclearization, however, can expel US imperialism from the Korean peninsula or resolve the class contradictions within North and South Korea. Socialist revolution must take up these tasks.

  18. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2019 12:38:08 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    KIM JONG IL -mastemind of self-reliant socialism -special article by Dr Dermot Hudson #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762821
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    1. KIM JONG IL -mastemind of self-reliant socialism -special article by Dr Dermot Hudson
                                                                  As we approach the 8th anniversary of the demise of the great leader comrade...
  19. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2019 12:28:09 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    Impeachment: It’s not just about Trump but also deepening democracy #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762815
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    1. Impeachment: It's not just about Trump but also deepening democracy
      By Blake Deppe from People's World
      Impeachment: It’s not just about Trump but also deepening democracy
  20. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2019 12:23:11 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
    • Jonathan
    Documentary about journalist Robert Fisk a highlight of Toronto International Film Festival #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1762814
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    1. Documentary about journalist Robert Fisk a highlight of Toronto International Film Festival
      By Blake Deppe from People's World
      TORONTO—One of the most progressive films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was a National Film Board of Canada documentary, This Is Not a Movie, celebrating the work of lifelong foreign correspondent Robert Fisk.
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