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Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2020 15:13:17 PST Protestation (English)
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Doomsday Clock moves even closer to midnight #ClassWarfare https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/h/doomsday
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Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2020 14:58:42 PST Protestation (English)
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Soas united in protest against cuts to casual workers #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1798331
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Lenin: TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY #ClassWarfare https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1911/sep/28.htm

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Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2020 14:48:19 PST Protestation (English)
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SNP urged to step and stop move for rural air traffic control #ClassWarfare https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/h/island-airport-jobs
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R. F. Andrews: Class-conscious workers stand for the complete unity of the workers of all countries in each and every educational, industrial, and political organisation. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes2/#quotenr7031
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  I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people. (Eduardo Galeano)
  
  The problem of Trotskyism is not a struggle between tendencies within the Chinese Communist Party, for between communists and Trotskyists there is no link, absolutely not one link: It is a question that concerns the entire people: the struggle against the Fatherland. (Ho Chi Minh)
  
  The alternatives that confront humanity to-day are serious enough; but they are alternatives of the destruction and anarchy of capitalism, involving still greater poverty and misery in the midst of abundance and rising productive power, or the social organisation of production, bringing abundance for all. The “overpopulation” (like the simultaneous “overproduction”) is only relative to the capitalist conditions of production. (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  When the bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to fascism to maintain itself. (Durruti)
  
  Anarchism is a product of despair. The psychology of the unsettled intellectual or the vagabond and not of the proletarian. (Lenin)
  
  Anarchism is bourgeois individualism in reverse. Individualism as the basis of the entire anarchist world outlook. (Lenin)
  
  It has been my endeavour to show in this work that a fall of wages would have no other effect than to raise profits. (David Ricardo)
  
  The sole “property” of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. (Lenin)
  
  Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… (Helen Keller)
  
  To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize? (Kevin Alfred Strom)
  
  Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. (Bertolt Brecht)
  
  You no doubt know that the greatest part of this victory was achieved by the Soviet people, by the people who live in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Unfortunately, we used to believe that the 20th century was the bloodiest, but we now see in the 21st century a new danger to humanity in the form of terrorism. (Bashar al-Assad)
  
  There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that? (David Ben Gurion)
  
  An unjust law is itself a species of violence. (Mahatma Gandhi)
  
  Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. (Mary Harris (Mother) Jones)
  
  Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. (Camus)
  
  Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. (Vaclav Havel)
  
  A riot is the language of the unheard. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  
  Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. (Tupac Shakur)
  
  Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none! (Johann Most)
  
  When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. (Victor Hugo)
  
  I was born in revolution. (Mary Harris (Mother) Jones)
  
  If nothing is left, one must scream, because silence is the biggest crime against humanity. (Nadezhda Mandelstam)
  
  One of the symptoms of revolution is the sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active interest in politics. (Lenin)
  
  We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. (Che Guevara)
  
  First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. (Mahatma Gandhi)
  
  The king must die so that the country can live. (Robespierre)
  
  To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. (Rita Mae Brown)
  
  A right delayed is a right denied. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  
  A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature. (John Stuart Mill)
  
  The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Steve Biko)
  
  The spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. (Ernst Toller)
  
  He is no revolutionist who would have the revolution of the proletariat only under the “condition” that it proceed smoothly. (Tchernychewski)
  
  We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. (Angela Davis)
  
  Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the “petty” – supposedly petty – details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for “paupers”!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc., – we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy. (Lenin)
  
  So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. (Voltaire)
  
  I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. (Abraham Lincoln)
  
  In politics, nothing happens by accident, if it happens, you can be sure we planned it that way. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
  
  People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. (James Baldwin)
  
  You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. (Pablo Neruda)
  
  That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. The Rights of Man”, circa 1792 (Thomas Paine)
  
  When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. (Plátōn)
  
  A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow)
  
  If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within. (James Madison)
  
  Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. (James Madison)
  
  The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. (Dresden James)
  
  Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain. (Napoléon Bonaparte)
  
  All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. (Voltaire)
  
  All war is based on deception. (Sun Tzu)
  
  All the promises of the free market have turned out to be lies. (Chris Hedges)
  
  If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (JFK)
  
  If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. (Henry A. Wallace)
  
  Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific knowhow. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Under such circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation it exploits. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
  
  The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. (Henry A. Wallace)
  
  Materialism is the recognition of “objects in themselves”, or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. (Lenin)
  
  The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. (Albert Einstein)
  
  Rich men and crooks are two sides of the same coin, two of the main elements nourished by capitalism. (Lenin)
  
  The friends of peace in bourgeois circles believe that world peace and disarmament can be realised within the frame-work of the present social order, whereas we, who base ourselves on the materialistic conception of history and on scientific socialism, are convinced that militarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state. (Rosa Luxemburg)
  
  A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable. (Edward Bernays)
  
  Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out. (John McCarthy)
  
  So you have two types of Negro. The old type and the new type. Most of you know the old type. When you read about him in history during slavery he was called “Uncle Tom.” He was the house Negro. And during slavery you had two Negroes. You had the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negro usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master’s second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master’s house–probably in the basement or the attic–but he still lived in the master’s house. So whenever that house Negro identified himself, he always identified himself in the same sense that his master identified himself. When his master said, “We have good food, ” the house Negro would say, “Yes, we have plenty of good food.” “We” have plenty of good food. When the master said that “we have a fine home here, ” the house Negro said, “Yes, we have a fine home here.” When the master would be sick, the house Negro identified himself so much with his master he’d say, “What’s the matter boss, we sick?” His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses–the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. [Laughter] If his house caught on fire, they’d pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze. If someone came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate, ” naturally that Uncle Tom would say, “Go where? What could I do without boss? Where would I live? How would I dress? Who would look out for me?” That’s the house Negro. But if you went to the field Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate, ” he wouldn’t even ask you where or how. He’d say, “Yes, let’s go.” And that one ended right there. (Malcolm X)
  
  To fight against the impossible and win. (Fidel Castro)
  
  Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grab will go to them. (Ariel Sharon)
  
  The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. (Cornelius Tacitus)
  
  In the so called mistakes of Stalin lies the difference between a revolutionary attitude and a revisionist attitude. You have to look at Stalin in the historical context in which he moves, you don’t have to look at him as some kind of brute, but in that particular historical context. I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good. (Che Guevara)
  
  Now, to balance the scale, I’d like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. ‘Cause that’s all you ever hear about in this country. It’s our differences. That’s all the media and the politicians are ever talking about—the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different—that’s what they’re gonna talk about—race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep ’em showing up at those jobs. (George Carlin)
  
  You will burn in Hell for thousands of migrants from Africa and for supporting Al-Qaeda. (Muammar Gaddafi)
  
  That white person you see calling himself a liberal is the most dangerous thing in the western hemisphere…he’s like a fox. (Malcolm X)
  
  The big lie about capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That’s impossible. Capitalism works only if the vast majority of the population are kept poor enough to never quit working, are kept poor enough to accept distasteful jobs society cannot function without. If everyone were a millionaire, who would empty the trash or repair the sewers? It follows that the poorer the general population is made, the greater the worth of the money held by the wealthy, in terms of the lives which may be bought and sold with it. (Michael Rivero)
  
  By the later years of the Reagan regime, a preferred nomenclature suited to U.S. interests became standardized for the Third World. In the case of nations to be rolled back (e.g., Nicaragua), governments were called terrorist and the insurgents were labeled democratic. In the case of countries to be supported against “communist” insurgencies (e.g., El Salvador and the Philippines), the governments were called democratic and the insurgents were labeled terrorists. (Thomas Bodenheimer)
  
  Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world – particularly the Third World – since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media. (Ralph McGehee)
  
  We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population. (Israel Koenig)
  
  Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
  
  U.S. Naval psychologists specially selected men for these commando tasks from submarine crews, paratroops, and some convicted murderers were being released from prisons to become assassins. (Thomas Narut)
  
  Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent…Representative government required to speak, LIES with impunity. (Napoléon Bonaparte)
  
  The first casualty of war is truth. (Rudyard Kipling)
  
  The modern liberal state … often uses deception to gain its ends — not so much deception of the foreign enemy, but of its own citizens, who have been taught to trust their leaders. (Howard Zinn)
  
  … U. S. business wants a “favorable climate of investment” abroad, and … military regimes that will crush labor unions and otherwise serve foreign business meet that demand. (Edward Herman)
  
  With unfailing consistancy, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries … whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. (Michael Parenti)
  
  U.S. Ieaders commit war crimes as a matter of institutional necessity, as their imperial role calls for keeping subordinate peoples in their proper place and assuring a “favorable climate of investment” everywhere. They do this by using their economic power, but also (by means of “bombs bursting in the air” and) by supporting Diem, Mobutu, Pinochet, Suharto, Savimbi, Marcos, Fujimori, Salinas, and scores of similar leaders. War crimes also come easily because U.S. Ieaders consider themselves to be the vehicles of a higher morality and truth and can operate in violation of law without cost. It is also immensely helpful that their mainstream media agree that their country is above the law and will support and rationalize each and every venture and the commission of war crimes. (Edward Herman)
  
  As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. (Robert McChesney)
  
  Peace cannot exist without equality. (Edward Said)
  
  The great masses of the people at the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously evil … they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. (Hitler)
  
  We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure? (Curtis LeMay)
  
  All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. (Upton Sinclair)
  
  Private property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all instruments of production and the distribution of all products according to common agreement – in a word, what is called the communal ownership of goods. (Friedrich Engels)
  
  Class-conscious workers stand for the complete unity of the workers of all countries in each and every educational, industrial, and political organisation. (R. F. Andrews)
  
  In Lenin I honor a man, who in total sacrifice of his own person has committed his entire energy to realizing social justice. I do not find his methods advisable. One thing is certain, however: men like him are the guardians and renewers [Erneuerer] of mankind’s conscience. (Albert Einstein)
  
  Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. There corresponds to this also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. (Karl Marx)
  
  Israel was created by Western imperialism and maintained by Western firepower. (Huey P. Newton)
  
  The masses are the teachers of everything and the creators of everything. (Kim Jong-il)
  
  Against the collective power of the propertied classes, the working class cannot act as a class except by constituting itself into a political party distinct from, and opposed to, all old parties formed from the propertied classes. (Karl Marx)
  
  The Muslim Terrorist Apparatus was Created by US Intelligence as a Geopolitical Weapon. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
  
  The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks…. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul. (Stalin)
  
  We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history. (Muammar Gaddafi)
  
  The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets. (Frank Church)
  
  Market society was born in England—yet it was on the Continent that its weaknesses engendered the most tragic complications. In order to comprehend German fascism, we must revert to Ricardian England. The nineteenth century, as cannot be overemphasized, was England’s century. The Industrial Revolution was an English event. Market economy, free trade, and the gold standard were English inventions. These institutions broke down in the twenties everywhere—in Germany, Italy, or Austria the event was merely more political and more dramatic. But whatever the scenery and the temperature of the final episodes, the long-run factors which wrecked that civilization should be studied in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, England. (Karl Polanyi)
  
  Empire is emerging today as the center that supports the globalization of productive networks and casts its widely inclusive net to try to envelop all power relations within its world order — and yet at the same time it deploys a powerful police function against the new barbarians and the rebellious slaves who threaten its order. (Antonio Negri)
  
  The substitution of one social system for another is a complicated and long revolutionary process. It is not simply a spontaneous process, but a struggle, it is a process connected with the clash of classes. Capitalism is decaying, but it must not be compared simply with a tree which has decayed to such an extent that it must fall to the ground of its own accord. No, revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle. And every time the people of the new world came into power they had to defend themselves against the attempts of the old world to restore the old power by force; these people of the new world always had to be on the alert, always had to be ready to repel the attacks of the old world upon the new system. (Stalin)
  
  For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight. (John Maynard Keynes)
  
  All propaganda for socialism must be refashioned from abstract and general to concrete and directly practical. (Lenin)
  
  Capitalism is religion. Banks are churches. Bankers are priests. Wealth is heaven. Poverty is hell. Rich people are saints. Poor people are sinners. Commodities are blessings. Money is God. (Miguel D. Lewis)
  
  The only symbol of superiority that I know is kindness. (Beethoven)
  
  We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary. (Lenin)
  
  One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes made by Communists is the idea that a revolution can be made by revolutionaries alone. On the contrary, to be successful, all serious revolutionary work requires that the idea that revolutionaries are capable of playing the part only of the vanguard of the truly virile and advanced class must be understood and translated into action. (Lenin)
  
  I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. (Jorge Luis Borges)
  
  We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. (Chris Hedges)
  
  I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human. (Frida Kahlo)
  
  This fascist state intends to kill all of us. We must organize resistance. Violence can only be answered with violence. This is the generation of Auschwitz [referring to the West German government and society], you cannot argue with them. (Gudrun Ensslin)
  
  Marxism-Leninism … teaches that the legal relationships (and, consequently, law itself) are rooted in the material conditions of life, and that law is merely the will of the dominant class, elevated into a statute. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)
  
  The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. (Karl Marx)
  
  If, by being revolutionary, one means rational rebellion against intolerable social conditions, if, by being radical, one means “going to the root of things,” the rational will to improve them, then fascism is never revolutionary. (Wilhelm Reich)
  
  The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin. (Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin)
  
  Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
  
  The present-day capitalist economy in China is a capitalist economy which for the most part is under the control of the People’s Government and which is linked with the state-owned socialist economy in various forms and supervised by the workers. It is not an ordinary but a particular kind of capitalist economy, namely, a state-capitalist economy of a new type. It exists not chiefly to make profits for the capitalists but to meet the needs of the people and the state. True, a share of the profits produced by the workers goes to the capitalists, but that is only a small part, about one quarter, of the total. The remaining three quarters are produced for the workers (in the form of the welfare fund), for the state (in the form of income tax) and for expanding productive capacity (a small part of which produces profits for the capitalists). Therefore, this state-capitalist economy of a new type takes on a socialist character to a very great extent and benefits the workers and the state. (Mao Zedong)
  
  He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost. (Bertolt Brecht)
  
  We have a marvelous Georgian who has sat down to write a big article for Prosveshcheniye, for which he has collected all the Austrian and other materials. (Lenin)
  
  The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. (Gramsci)
  
  Make the economy scream [in Chile] to prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him. (Richard Nixon)
  
  You cannot trust in imperialism, not even a little bit… Not at all! (Che Guevara)
  
  Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeois and of its rule. It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on its trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented. The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians. In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed — a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. (Karl Marx)
  
  Principle of exaggeration and disfigurement. Make any anecdote, however small, a serious threat. (Joseph Goebbels)
  
  The bourgeoisie will use any and every instrument of struggle as occasion arisese It is for the working class and its allies to be prepared for the fight in front. (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  Every specific turn in history causes some change in the form of petty-bourgeois wavering, which always occurs alongside the proletariat, and which, in one degree or an other, always penetrates its midst. This wavering flows in two “streams”: petty-bourgeois reformism, i.e., servility to the bourgeoisie covered by a cloak of sentimental democratic and “Social”-Democratic phrases and fatuous wishes; and petty-bourgeois revolutionism—menacing, blustering and boastful in words, but a mere bubble of disunity, disruption and brainlessness in deeds. This wavering will inevitably occur until the taproot of capitalism is cut. (Lenin)
  
  Since 1954, however, we have not parachuted teams into the Soviet Union – our number one enemy – to destabilize that country… Neither do we run these violent operations in England, France, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, or Switzerland. Since the mid-1950s they have all been conducted in Third World countries where governments do not have the power to force the United States to stop its brutal and destabilizing campaigns. (John Stockwell)
  
  In essence, Marxism and Marxist notions need to evolve with the development of historical conditions. It is on the basis of Marxist methodology that Marxism evolves. In the conditions of the last stage of capitalism, imperialism, Marxism becomes Marxism-Leninism. Refuting Leninism is tantamount to decrying Marxism, as anti-Leninism is rendered a form of anti-Marxism. Marxism to- day cannot be understood without Lenin’s contribution to Marxism. (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  Yet the Second World War began not as a war with the U.S.S.R., but as a war between capitalist countries. Why? Firstly, because war with the U.S.S.R., as a socialist land, is more dangerous to capitalism than war between capitalist countries; for whereas war between capitalist countries puts in question only the supremacy of certain capitalist countries over others, war with the U.S.S.R. must certainly put in question the existence of capitalism itself. Secondly, because the capitalists, although they clamour, for “propaganda” purposes, about the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union, do not themselves believe that it is aggressive, because they are aware of the Soviet Union’s peaceful policy and know that it will not itself attack capitalist countries. (Stalin)
  
  It’s not my fault if reality is Marxist. (Che Guevara)
  
  At the bottom of genuinely national wars, such as took place especially between 1789 and 1871, was a long process of mass national movements, of a struggle against absolutism and feudalism, the overthrow of national oppression, and the formation of states on a national basis, as a prerequisite of capitalist development. The national ideology created by that epoch left a deep impress on the mass of the petty bourgeoisie and a section of the proletariat. This is now being utilised in a totally different and imperialist epoch by the sophists of the bourgeoisie, and by the traitors to socialism who are following in their wake, so as to split the workers, and divert them from their class aims and from the revolutionary struggle against the bourgeoisie. The words in the Communist Manifesto that “the working men have no country” are today truer than ever before. Only the proletariat’s international struggle against the bourgeoisie can preserve what it has won, and open to the oppressed masses the road to a better future. (Lenin)
  
  Since 1845 Marx and I have held the view that one of the ultimate results of the future proletarian revolution will be the gradual dissolution of the political organisation known by the name of state. The main object of this organisation has always been to secure, by armed force, the economic oppression of the labouring majority by the minority which alone possesses wealth. With the disappearance of an exclusively wealth-possessing minority there also disappears the necessity for the power of armed oppression, or state power. At the same time, however, it was always our view that in order to attain this and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, 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)
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R. F. Andrews: The growing difficulties of the capitalists in all countries, multiplied by their ever-sharpening international rivalries, are prompting them to seek a way out through Fascist and nationalist dictatorships in their respective countries. Nearly all the Fascist propaganda bodies which are preparing the way for Fascism in Great Britain are quite openly anti-Semitic. This is not merely blind imitation of Hitler. The Fascists and the capitalist class generally would pay dearly for the chance of setting the British workers against some fancied “alien intruder” and thus diverting attacks from themselves. Those who imagine that there are no backward jingo sentiments among the British workers, on which the Fascists can play, are only fooling themselves. All the more reason, then, for every class-conscious worker realising the nature of the capitalist trap that lies behind the stinking bait of anti-Jew propaganda. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes1/#quotenr7030
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  Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanized humanity, lest all things be held unalterable! (Bertolt Brecht)
  
  Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. (Edward Bernays)
  
  Capitalism is the ultimate corruption, that never quits until it is stamped out. (Glen Ford)
  
  It is ironic that some left intellectuals should deem class struggle to be largely irrelevant at the very time class power is becoming increasingly transparent, at the very time corporate concentration and profit accumulation is more rapacious than ever, and the tax system has become more regressive and oppressive, the upward transfer of income and wealth has accelerated, public sector assets are being privatized, corporate money exercises an increasing control over the political process, people at home and abroad are working harder for less, and throughout the world poverty is growing at a faster rate than overall population. (Michael Parenti)
  
  Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. (Frank Borman)
  
  The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society — we are on the eve of universal change. (Eugene V. Debs)
  
  A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
  
  It is not guerrilla warfare which demoralises, but unorganised, irregular, non-party guerrilla acts. (Lenin)
  
  A Marxist bases himself on the class struggle, and not social peace. (Lenin)
  
  Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat. (Lenin)
  
  Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary. (Che Guevara)
  
  It is not the Jews who are the enemies of the working people. The enemies of the workers are the capitalists of all countries. Among the Jews there are working people, and they form the majority. They are our brothers, who, like us, are oppressed by capital; they are our comrades in the struggle for socialism. Among the Jews there are kulaks, exploiters and capitalists, just as there are among the Russians, and among people of all nations. The capitalists strive to sow and foment hatred between workers of different faiths, different nations and different races. Those who do not work are kept in power by the power and strength of capital. Rich Jews, like rich Russians, and the rich in all countries, are in alliance to oppress, crush, rob and disunite the workers. (Lenin)
  
  There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption. (David Ricardo)
  
  1) Things exist independently of our consciousness, independently of our perceptions, outside of us, for it is beyond doubt that alizarin existed in coal tar yesterday and it is equally beyond doubt that yesterday we knew nothing of the existence of this alizarin and received no sensations from it. 2) There is definitely no difference in principle between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself, and there can be no such difference. The only difference is between what is known and what is not yet known. And philosophical inventions of specific boundaries between the one and the other, inventions to the effect that the thing-in-itself is “beyond” phenomena (Kant), or that we can and must fence ourselves off by some philosophical partition from the problem of a world which in one part or another is still unknown but which exists outside us (Hume)—all this is the sheerest nonsense, Schrulle, crotchet, invention. 3) In the theory of knowledge, as in every other branch of science, we must think dialectically, that is, we must not regard our knowledge as ready-made and unalterable, but must determine how knowledge emerges from ignorance, how incomplete, inexact knowledge becomes more complete and more exact. (Lenin)
  
  Stalin systematically gives credit for all progress made to Lenin, whereas the credit has been in very large measure his own. (Henri Barbusse)
  
  There is pow’r, there is pow’r\ In a band of workingmen.\ When they stand hand in hand,\ That’s a pow’r, that’s a pow’r\ That must rule in every land —\ One Industrial Union Grand. (Joe Hill)
  
  I hate the indifferent. I believe that life means taking sides. One who is really alive, can be nothing if not citizen and partisan. Indifference is lethargy: it is parasitism, not life. Therefore, I hate the indifferent. (Gramsci)
  
  Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. (David Ben Gurion)
  
  The headlong stream is termed violent but the river bed hemming it in is termed violent by no one. (Bertolt Brecht)
  
  Everyone knows that Leninism was born, grew up and became strong in relentless struggle against opportunism of every brand, including Centrism in the West (Kautsky) and Centrism in our country (Trotsky, etc.). This cannot be denied even by the downright enemies of Bolshevism. (Stalin)
  
  In Britain with our democratic institutions and the need for a high degree of consent, some of the measures adopted in Chile are quite unacceptable. Our reform must be in line with our traditions and our Constitution. At times the process may seem painfully slow. But I am certain we shall achieve our reforms in our own way and in our own time. Then they will endure. (Margaret Thatcher)
  
  Trotsky, along with Khrushchev, belongs to the category of the great revisionists. (Che Guevara)
  
  There are some men who do not die. Stalin is among them. Stalin was an example of creativity, humanism and an edifying example of peace and heroism! … Everything he did, he did to serve the people. Our father Stalin is dead, but in remembering his example, our affection for him will make our arms grow strong towards building a great tomorrow, to secure a future in memory of his great example! (Salvador Allende)
  
  When hopes and dreams are loose in the street, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. (Che Guevara)
  
  With rebellion, awareness is born. (Camus)
  
  To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice, they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work. (Samuel Gompers)
  
  I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. […] It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10, 000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I. (Muhammad Ali)
  
  It always seems impossible, until it is done. (Nelson Mandela)
  
  Every generation needs a revolution. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  The desire to revolt against oppression is the highest desire there is. (Tupac Shakur)
  
  The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. (Rosa Luxemburg)
  
  Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. (Georg Buchner)
  
  If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. (George Washington)
  
  The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. (John Milton Hay)
  
  I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. (Che Guevara)
  
  In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
  
  All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come: the revolution. (Victor Hugo)
  
  A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society. (Daisaku Ikeda)
  
  Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  
  Older rich men declare war. But it is the poor youth that must fight and die. (Herbert Hoover)
  
  How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words! (Samuel Adams)
  
  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)
  
  We must expel Arabs and take their places. (David Ben Gurion)
  
  Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. (A. Philip Randolph)
  
  Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations — all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. (Lenin)
  
  Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  We the People are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. (Abraham Lincoln)
  
  The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent. (Gore Vidal)
  
  Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. (Kurt Cobain)
  
  Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President. (Theodore Roosevelt)
  
  Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. (Cornelius Tacitus)
  
  This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. (Plátōn)
  
  History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance. (James Madison)
  
  It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people, who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations, do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper. And there is where is the harm lies. (Mark Twain)
  
  …everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious. (Arthur Young)
  
  Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire)
  
  A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. (Aristotélēs)
  
  Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. (George Orwell)
  
  The indifference to the plight of others and the cult of the self is what the corporate state seeks to instill in us. (Chris Hedges)
  
  In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. (Fran Lebowitz)
  
  Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself. (Henry A. Wallace)
  
  [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
  
  The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan. (Henry A. Wallace)
  
  I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world. (Joe Biden)
  
  In a dictatorship, censorship is used; in a democracy, manipulation. (Ryszard Kapuściński)
  
  We created Al Qaeda (in order to fight the Soviet Union). (Hillary Clinton)
  
  The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. (Michael Parenti)
  
  “Don’t you want to abolish state power?” Yes, we do, but not right now; we cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. Our present task is to strengthen the people’s state apparatus — mainly the people’s army, the people’s police and the people’s courts — in order to consolidate national defence and protect the people’s interests. Given this condition, China can develop steadily, under the leadership of the working class and the Communist Party, from an agricultural into an industrial country and from a new-democratic into a socialist and communist society, can abolish classes and realize the Great Harmony. (Mao Zedong)
  
  In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. (Karl Marx)
  
  A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
  
  We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (Elie Wiesel)
  
  The liquidation of fascism must be the liquidation of the bourgeoisie that created it. (Gramsci)
  
  They [Social-Democrats] are just as much traitors to socialism… They represent that top section of workers who have been bribed by the bourgeoisie… for in all the civilised, advanced countries the bourgeoisie rob—either by colonial oppression or by financially extracting ‘gain’ from formally independent weak countries—they rob a population many times larger than that of ‘their own’ country. This is the economic factor that enables the imperialist bourgeoisie to obtain superprofits, part of which is used to bribe the top section of the proletariat and convert it into a reformist, opportunist petty bourgeoisie that fears revolution. (Lenin)
  
  It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. (Ariel Sharon)
  
  The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! (Konstantin Rokossovsky)
  
  By exposing the fact that the opportunists and social-chauvinists are in reality betraying and selling the interests of the masses, that they are defending the temporary privileges of a minority of the workers, that they are the vehicles of bourgeois ideas and influences, that they are really allies and agents of the bourgeoisie, we teach the masses to appreciate their true political interests, to fight for socialism and for the revolution through all the long and painful vicissitudes of imperialist wars and imperialist armistices. (Lenin)
  
  The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies. (Bertolt Brecht)
  
  What we need to do is to use the methods the terrorists use in order to overcome [the IRA]. (James Prior)
  
  The richly nourished patriotism of war breeds divisions and antagonisms which are easily exploited afterwards by political, racial, religious, and cultural passions, but most of all by economic interests. (John A. Hobson)
  
  This country was founded by a group of slave-owners who told us all men are created equal. Oh yeah, all men, except for Indians and niggers and women, right? I always like to use that authentic American language. (George Carlin)
  
  The theory that the struggle between Bolshevism and Menshevism is a struggle for influence over an immature proletariat is not a new one. We have been encountering it since 1905 in innumerable books, pamphlets, and articles in the liberal press. Martov and Trotsky are putting before the German comrades liberal views with a Marxist coating… (Lenin)
  
  The war fought today by our people is not only against the terrorists, but also against those who sponsor terrorism. Terrorism is only an instrument used by those Western states which want to apply the same Nazi mentality which aims at dominating everyone else and turning states and nations into slaves, turning them into satellites and controlling everything they have, materially and morally. (Bashar al-Assad)
  
  Capital must protect itself in every way…Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. (Civil Servants’ Year Book)
  
  When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. (Hélder Câmara)
  
  The men who possess real power in this country have no intention of ending the cold war. (Albert Einstein)
  
  Israel controls the United States Senate. (James W. Fulbright)
  
  A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him. (Rosellen Brown)
  
  We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not…You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world. (Chaim Weizmann)
  
  Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. (Frederick Douglass)
  
  Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws. (Abraham Lincoln)
  
  How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world]. (Ramsey Clark)
  
  … so long as the media are in corporate hands, the task of social change will be vastly more difficult, if not impossible … (Robert McChesney)
  
  If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. (Edward Herman)
  
  When the IMF and the World Bank force a country to cut wages, lay off workers, produce for export instead of their own people, and sell off public property to cronies for less than its value, that’s called “economic reform.” (Robert Naiman)
  
  Not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende. Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty… (Edward M. Korry)
  
  We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism and in the future, nuclear terrorism. (Robert Bowman)
  
  How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think. (Hitler)
  
  A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. (Aristotélēs)
  
  American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France; but in all these three countries the dominating fact is that whenever the people get ready to change the government, they can change it. (Upton Sinclair)
  
  The growing difficulties of the capitalists in all countries, multiplied by their ever-sharpening international rivalries, are prompting them to seek a way out through Fascist and nationalist dictatorships in their respective countries. Nearly all the Fascist propaganda bodies which are preparing the way for Fascism in Great Britain are quite openly anti-Semitic. This is not merely blind imitation of Hitler. The Fascists and the capitalist class generally would pay dearly for the chance of setting the British workers against some fancied “alien intruder” and thus diverting attacks from themselves. Those who imagine that there are no backward jingo sentiments among the British workers, on which the Fascists can play, are only fooling themselves. All the more reason, then, for every class-conscious worker realising the nature of the capitalist trap that lies behind the stinking bait of anti-Jew propaganda. (R. F. Andrews)
  
  In the general course of human nature, a power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will. (Alexander Hamilton)
  
  African blood flows in our veins. Many of our ancestors came as slaves from Africa to this land. As slaves they struggled quite a great deal. They fought as members of the liberating army of Cuba. We’re brothers and sisters of the people of Africa and we are ready to fight in their behalf. (Fidel Castro)
  
  Like a tree that has sunk its roots deep in the earth, which does not fall no matter how fierce the storm may be, the party can remain firm in any circumstances only when it has sunk its roots deep in the broad masses. (Kim Jong-il)
  
  However great your consciousness may be, you cannot stand up against bullets with bare hands! (Stalin)
  
  The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. (Gerry Spence)
  
  Despite the fact that only the Nazi included into the title of their party designation ‘National Socialist’, fascism generally presented itself as socialist. (Mark Neocleous)
  
  It is natural for a liberal to speak of “democracy” in general; but a Marxist will never forget to ask: “for what class?” (Lenin)
  
  There is no hope other than communism. (@kazahann)
  
  The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own. (Nathan Mayer Rothschild)
  
  Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called “Capitalism“. (Muammar Gaddafi)
  
  By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit thus become the most potent means of driving capitalist production beyond its own limits, and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle. (Karl Marx)
  
  Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition. (Jane Fonda)
  
  The capitalists have always use the term “freedom” to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. And capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion. (Lenin)
  
  Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. (Tolstoy)
  
  War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created. (Lenin)
  
  Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war. (Lenin)
  
  When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed. (Michael Parenti)
  
  If every worker and every peasant had had a rifle like that in their hands, there would never have been a fascist coup. That is the great lesson to be learned for revolutionaries from events in Chile. (Fidel Castro)
  
  The bourgeoisie turns everything into a commodity, hence also the writing of history. It is part of its being, of its condition for existence, to falsify all goods: it falsified the writing of history. And the best — paid historiography is that which is best falsified for the purposes of the bourgeoisie. (Friedrich Engels)
  
  The U.S. imperialists are more afraid of the united strength of the revolutionary peoples of the world than of anything else. (Kim Il Sung)
  
  All wars are inseparable from the political systems that engender them. The policy which a given state, a given class within that state, pursued for a long time before the war is inevitably continued by that same class during the war, the form of action alone being changed. (Lenin)
  
  Marx is the teacher of revolution for the proletariat and working people all over the world, as well as the main founder of Marxism, creator of Marxist parties, pathfinder for international communism and the greatest thinker of modern times. (Xi Jinping)
  
  They presented us to the world as a slave who is proud of their chains, which is an insult! (Rafael Cancel Miranda)
  
  It is impossible to finish off capitalism without having finished off social democracy in the working-class movement. (Stalin)
  
  They think that Marx and Lenin invented the science known as Marxism-Leninism. Marx and Lenin did not invent. They merely observed and recorded. That’s all they did. They’re no different to Newton. We call the laws of gravity Newton’s Laws. But Newton did not invent the laws of gravity. He merely observed and recorded. (Stokely Carmichael)
  
  You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education. (Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin)
  
  Neofascism abolishes civil liberties in the name of national security and brands whole groups as traitors and enemies of the people. It is the militarized instrument used by the ruling elites to maintain control, divide and tear apart the society and further accelerate pillage and social inequality. The ruling ideology, no longer credible, is replaced with the jackboot. (Chris Hedges)
  
  Some say that it is impossible to acquire the great qualities of revolutionary geniuses like Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and that it is impossible to raise our own qualities to the same level as theirs. But as long as Party members work hard and earnestly, never allow themselves to be isolated for one single moment from the day to day struggle of the people, and make serious efforts to study Marxist literature, learn from the experiences of other comrades and the masses of the people, and constantly strive to steel and cultivate themselves, they will be perfectly able to raise their qualities to the same level as that of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. (Nelson Mandela)
  
  The revolution of 1848 struck a deadly blow at all these vociferous, motley and ostentatious forms of pre-Marxian socialism. In all countries, the revolution revealed the various classes of society in action. The shooting of the workers by the republican bourgeoisie in Paris in the June days of 1848 finally revealed that the proletariat alone was socialist by nature. The liberal bourgeoisie dreaded the independence of this class a hundred times more than it did any kind of reaction. The craven liberals grovelled before reaction. The peasantry were content with the abolition of the survivals of feudalism and joined the supporters of order, wavering but occasionally between workers’ democracy and bourgeois liberalism. All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)
  
  The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century. (Karl Marx)
  
  Fascists are not human. A snake is more human. (Hugo Chávez)
  
  The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless–that’s what you mean by nonviolent–be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity–that’s this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs. A hundred years ago they used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they’re still doing the same thing. Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day. (Malcolm X)
  
  Historically, revolutions are bloody. Oh, yes, they are. They haven’t never had a bloodless revolution, or a nonviolent revolution. That don’t happen even in Hollywood. You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. (Malcolm X)
  
  The chief endeavour of the bourgeoisie of all countries and of its reformist hangers-on is to kill in the working class faith in its own strength, faith in the possibility and inevitability of its victory, and thus to perpetuate capitalist slavery. For the bourgeoisie knows that if capitalism has not yet been overthrown and still continues to exist, it owes it not to its own merits, but to the fact that the proletariat has still not enough faith in the possibility of its victory. It cannot be said that the efforts of the bourgeoisie in this respect have been altogether unsuccessful. It must be confessed that the bourgeoisie and its agents among the working class have to some extent succeeded in poisoning the minds of the working class with the venom of doubt and scepticism. (Stalin)
  
  None have more sincere concern and zeal than thieves to maintain the institution of private property, without which their profession would come to an end, and they would find themselves faced with the unpleasant alternative of having to work for their living. On the other hand, they cannot publicly proclaim the principles of thievery and gangsterism as the basis of their stand; for public purposes, they have to proclaim the most high moral principles, to maintain existing society “unspoiled” and to keep “the mind” of the worker “healthy.” (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  Principle of transposition. Load on the opponent the own errors or defects, responding the attack with the attack. If you can not deny the bad news, invent others that distract them. (Joseph Goebbels)
  
  This is the radical difference that distinguishes the psychology of the peasant, handicraftsman, intellectual, the petty bourgeois in general, from that of the proletarian. The petty bourgeois sees and feels that he is heading for ruin, that life is becoming more difficult, that the struggle for existence is ever more ruthless, and that his position and that of his family are becoming more and more hopeless. It is an indisputable fact, and the petty bourgeois protests against it. But how does he protest? He protests as the representative of a class that is hopelessly perishing, that despairs of its future, that is depressed and cowardly. There is nothing to be done … if only there were fewer children to suffer our torments and hard toil, our poverty and our humiliation—such is the cry of the petty bourgeois. The class-conscious worker is far from holding this point of view. He will not allow his consciousness to be dulled by such cries no matter how sincere and heartfelt they may be. Yes, we workers and the mass of small proprietors lead a life that is filled with unbearable oppression and suffering. Things are harder for our generation than they were for our fathers. But in one respect we are luckier than our fathers. We have begun to learn and are rapidly learning to fight—and to fight not as individuals, as the best of our fathers fought, not for the slogans of bourgeois speechifiers that are alien to us in spirit, but for our slogans, the slogans of our class. We are fighting better than our fathers did. Our children will fight better than we do, and they will be victorious. The working class is not perishing, it is growing, becoming stronger, gaining courage, consolidating itself, educating itself and becoming steeled in battle. We are pessimists as far as serfdom, capitalism and petty, production are concerned, but we are ardent optimists in what concerns the working-class movement and its aims. We are already laying the foundation of a new edifice and our children will complete its construction. That is the reason—the only reason—why we are unconditionally the enemies of neomalthusianism, suited only to unfeeling and egotistic petty-bourgeois couples, who whisper in scared voices: “God grant we manage somehow by our selves. So much the better if we have no children.” (Lenin)
  
  To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. (Voltaire)
  
  As the Praetorian Guard, fighting wars for multinational interests while also paying for such adventures, our relative economic stability, domestic social and material infrastructure, and the freedom and liberties of the American people may all be forfeited. (John Stockwell)
  
  Lenin showed that imperialism is moribund capitalism, that imperialism is the eve of the Lenin on imperialism socialist revolution of the proletariat. In his work on the foundations of Leninism, Stalin points out that Marx and Engels lived and fought at a time when imperialism had not yet developed, in a period of the preparation of the proletariat for revolution, whereas Lenin’s revolutionary activity was effected within the period of developed imperialism, the period of the unfolding proletarian revolution. Leninism is the further development of Marxism under new conditions, under the conditions of the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolutions. It follows, therefore, that at this time one cannot be a Marxist without being a Leninist. It also follows that to deny the Leninist theory of imperialism is to break away entirely from Marxism. It is clear from this that any distortion or mistake in the theory of imperialism inevitably means a break with revolutionary Marxism-Leninism. (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  What are the Communists? Our capitalist Press and propaganda has for so many years built up a “Communist bogey” that for most non-political people a Communist is a mythical monstrosity. He is either just a man who is born lazy, or an agitator paid by foreign gold, who is remarkably successful in per- suading honest and intelligent workers to strike for no reason; he is in any case anti-social and unpatriotic. The real truth is very different; the Communists in every country have numbered in their ranks some of the most highly skilled and conscientious workers, scientists, teachers, and writers; they are on the whole well informed and read The Times and the Financial News assiduously! They spend a good part of their leisure in mastering the intricacies of Marxist phil- osophy, in studying and seeking to improve social conditions, and in Trade Union and political activities. They include people of wide general culture and lively intellect. And above all, they are international in their outlook, sympathy, and philosophy. All the gangsters and fools who were welcomed into the Nazi party are assiduously excluded from the Communist ranks. Their professional politicians live on limited salaries and must maintain a high standard of personal conduct; (this rule is particularly strict in the Soviet Union). For a practical example of the difference between a Communist and a Nazi, one may recall the superb con- trast of Dimitrov and Goering during the course of the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933. (Denis Nowell Pritt)
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  By Protestation from Protestation
  Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. (Stalin)
  
  The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that has no national boundaries. (Che Guevara)
  
  For capitalist countries war is just as natural and legitimate a condition of things as the exploitation of the working class. (Stalin)
  
  The real grand corruption is in the [capitalist] system, itself. (Glen Ford)
  
  The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution — particularly the Socialist idea — is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. (Emma Goldman)
  
  We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. (Louis T. McFadden)
  
  In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. (Edward Bernays)
  
  Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront. (Stalin)
  
  This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas. (Edward Bernays)
  
  In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. (Thích Nhất Hạnh)
  
  The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. (David Ricardo)
  
  By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists. (Lenin)
  
  Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. (Benjamin Netanyahu)
  
  We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. (Simón Bolívar)
  
  It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (André Gide)
  
  There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it. (Vladimir Jabotinsky)
  
  When Stalin was still alive, I saw things differently, but as I look back over this century, I can state that Stalin was the greatest individual of this century, the greatest political genius. To adopt a scientific attitude about someone is quite different from one’s personal attitude. (Alexander Zinoviev)
  
  If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records. (Kurt Cobain)
  
  Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated. (Che Guevara)
  
  Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. (Goethe)
  
  Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)
  
  While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. (Eugene V. Debs)
  
  The Revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will be no rerun, brothers. The Revolution — will be live. (Gilbert Scott-Heron)
  
  As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected … before a drop of blood was shed. (John Adams)
  
  None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)
  
  If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. (Henry Ford)
  
  Give me liberty or give me death. (Patrick Henry)
  
  Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real. (C. Wright Mills)
  
  Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)
  
  Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves. Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever of power, much money—these impotent ones! See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss. Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth. Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they all smell to me, these idolaters. My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the steam of these human sacrifices! Open still remaineth the earth for great souls. Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of tranquil seas. Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty! (Nietzsche)
  
  The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. (Plátōn)
  
  Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (Lenin)
  
  In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  
  Tell the children the truth. (Bob Marley)
  
  They got money for wars, but wont feed the poor. (Tupac Shakur)
  
  When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  
  Revolution is not an action, it is a process. (Huey P. Newton)
  
  I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. (Huey P. Newton)
  
  Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Aldous Huxley)
  
  The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings can change their lives. (William James)
  
  The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit. (Sir Josiah Stamp)
  
  One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)
  
  When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  When even one American — who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. (Harry Truman)
  
  When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. (Gore Vidal)
  
  An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. (Joseph Goebbels)
  
  Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. (Goethe)
  
  The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. (William Colby)
  
  The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
  
  In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. (Dwight Eisenhower)
  
  The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty… are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. (Patrick Henry)
  
  The perfect totalitarian state is one where the all powerful political bosses and their army of managers, control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)
  
  I think that on balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)
  
  Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. (George Orwell)
  
  Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues! (Fidel Castro)
  
  The revolution is not about putting a different kind of person in power but a different kind of power in people. (Stephanie Van Hook)
  
  They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. (Henry A. Wallace)
  
  In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
  
  It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. (Henry A. Wallace)
  
  Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. (Mao Zedong)
  
  Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. (Lenin)
  
  History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. (Karl Marx)
  
  Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. (Karl Marx)
  
  Our task is that of ruthless criticism, and much more against ostensible friends than against open enemies; and in maintaining this our position we gladly forego cheap democratic popularity. (Karl Marx)
  
  I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin. (Che Guevara)
  
  It comes down to the ability to expropriate others’ labor. (Robert Bettinger)
  
  It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. (Henry Kissinger)
  
  Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity. (Lenin)
  
  I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. (Paul Robeson)
  
  Every class struggle is a political struggle. (Lenin)
  
  What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)
  
  All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)
  
  Corporations are in a sense moral monsters; we say they behave as such and we are disposed to treat them as such. The standard of international morality, particularly in matters of commercial intercourse, is on a still lower level. (John A. Hobson)
  
  Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. (Lenin)
  
  For us, those veterans who fought in that ferocious war – and the Soviet Union made great sacrifices, for it offered over 26 million martyrs, and as far as we know the number was closer to 30 million – were the main force; and today they offer a role model for the present generation and for future generations. They provide a role model of resilience and standing fast. Who could expect the siege of Stalingrad at that time to end the way it did without the steadfastness of those heroes? Who could expect that the initial retreat of the Soviet army would turn into a victory later? Without the victory of the Soviet Union, the Normandy landings for Western states wouldn’t have been possible. This is what many in the West are trying to obscure, i.e. the more important role played by the peoples of the Soviet Union at that time – including your people – in defeating Nazism. Today, these veterans play a vital role in strengthening the spirit of steadfastness, because you too are facing something similar to what Syria has been facing for decades. (Bashar al-Assad)
  
  The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. (Robert McChesney)
  
  Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing “rogue states, ” opposing “Islamic fundamentalism, ” or containing China. (Walden Bello)
  
  I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. (Albert Einstein)
  
  The state…. must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may no it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space. (Moshe Sharett)
  
  Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. (Theodore Herzl)
  
  We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. (Paul Warburg)
  
  The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission – founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller – and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens. (Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl)
  
  There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. (Joel Skousen)
  
  The first casualty when war comes is the truth. (Hiram Johnson)
  
  The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations’ favor. The consequence is a “race to the bottom” in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate. (Jeremy Brecher)
  
  The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whomever does not. (William Dugger)
  
  Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment. (Edward Herman)
  
  … the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of “investor friendly” regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights. (Edward Herman)
  
  The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. (Thomas Friedman)
  
  … the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. (Noam Chomsky)
  
  All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it… Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. (Hitler)
  
  The reader will understand that I despise these “yellows”; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called “respectable” papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the “New York Tribune” and the “Boston Evening Transcript” and the “Baltimore Sun, ” which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are “kept” papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term “respectability” in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the “yellow” journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser. (Upton Sinclair)
  
  The rich Jews, just like the rich Russians and the rich of all countries, are united in trampling upon, oppressing and dividing the workers. (R. F. Andrews)
  
  There are innumerable principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: ‘To rebel is justified.’ For thousands of years everyone said, ‘Oppression is justified, exploitation is justified, rebellion is not justified.’ From the time that Marxism appeared on the scene, this old judgment was turned upside down, and this is a great contribution. This principle was derived by the proletariat from its struggles, but Marx drew the conclusion. In accordance with this principle, there was then resistance, there was struggle, and socialism was realized. What is Comrade Stalin’s contribution? He developed this principle, developed Marxism-Leninism, and produced a very clear, concrete, and living doctrine for the oppressed people of the whole world. This is the complete doctrine for establishing a revolutionary front, overthrowing imperialism, overthrowing capitalism, and establishing a socialist society. (Mao Zedong)
  
  Reforms are concessions obtained from a ruling class that retains its rule. Revolution is the overthrow of the ruling class. (Lenin)
  
  I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first. (Kim Philby)
  
  Because the pseudo-Lefts are compelled to gloss over facts which reveal their, the “Lefts”, responsibility for sowing illusions which actually helped the German imperialists and hindered the growth and development of the revolution in Germany. (Lenin)
  
  Soviet, or socialist, democracy sweeps aside the pompous, bullying, words, declares ruthless war on the hypocrisy of the “democrats”, the landlords, capitalists or well-fed peasants who are making money by selling their surplus bread to hungry workers at profiteering prices. (Lenin)
  
  The essence of a U.S.A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph. (George Jackson)
  
  In all countries, the Trotskyists give themselves fine names in order to mask their dirty work and banditry. For example: in Spain they call themselves the United Marxist Workers Party (POUM). Do you know that it’s they who constitute the nests of spies in Madrid in Barcelona and in other places in the service of Franco? (Ho Chi Minh)
  
  Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t even know where north or south is. If you don’t eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you’re lost in a forest, not knowing anything. (Fidel Castro)
  
  Before we can unite, and in order that we may unite, we must first of all draw firm and definite lines of demarcation. (Lenin)
  
  Under no circumstances must we underrate fascism’s power of ideological infection. On the contrary, we for our part must develop an extensive ideological struggle based on clear, popular arguments and a correct, well thought out approach to the peculiarities of the national psychology of the masses of the people. (Georgi Dimitrov)
  
  All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Tolstoy)
  
  Dialectics is the teaching which shows how Opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical,—under what conditions they are identical, becoming transformed into one another,—why the human mind should grasp these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, becoming transformed into one another. (Lenin)
  
  Down with this contemptible fraud! There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be “equality” between the oppressed and the oppressors, between the exploited and the exploiters. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real “freedom” as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital, and no freedom for the toiling peasants from the yoke of the capitalists, landlords and merchants. (Lenin)
  
  If one looks into the genealogies of many ‘old families,’ one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor — backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. ‘Old money’ is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession. (Michael Parenti)
  
  In the name of peace they waged the wars. Ain’t they got no shame? (Nikki Giovanni)
  
  The Soviet state is the historically integrated form of the state during the transition period from capitalism to communism. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)
  
  Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism…. These organisations (ie Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins. (Stalin)
  
  The capitalists, the bourgeoisie, can at “best” put off the victory of socialism in one country or another at the cost of slaughtering further hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants. But they cannot save capitalism. The Soviet Republic has come to take the place of capitalism, the Republic which gives power to the working people and only to the working people, which entrusts the proletariat with the guidance of their liberation, which abolishes private property in land, factories and other means of production, because this private property is the source of the exploitation of the many by the few, the source of mass poverty, the source of predatory wars between nations, wars that enrich only the capitalists. (Lenin)
  
  Tu put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependance among the vassels, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
  
  I believe we should do things honestly, for without an honest attitude it is absolutely impossible to accomplish anything in this world. Which are the honest people? Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin are honest, men of science are honest. Which are the dishonest people? Trotsky, Bukharin, Chen Tu-hsiu and Chang Kuo-tao are extremely dishonest… (Mao Zedong)
  
  Fascism is able to count on the assistance of the greater part of the State forces, of the higher army staffs, of the police authorities, and of the lawcourts and magistracy, who exert all their force to crush working-class opposition, while treating Fascist illegality with open connivance (banning of the Red Front alongside permission of the Storm Troops). Finally, has Fascism “conquered power” from the bourgeois state dictatorship? Fascism has never “conquered power” in any country. In every case Fascism has been placed in power from above by the bourgeois dictatorship. (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  Educate ourselves, educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered. (Amilcar Cabral)
  
  The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. (Julius Nyerere)
  
  The coloured people of Cardiff are mainly communists simply because no one else has seen fit to give them a helping hand. (Harold Moody)
  
  There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. (Albert Einstein)
  
  Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can’t afford to let it in. We have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. (Al Capone)
  
  The scientific conclusions of Malthus are “considerate” towards the ruling classes in general and towards the reactionary elements of the ruling classes in particular; in other words he falsifies science for these interests, But his conclusions are ruthless as far as they concern the subjugated classes. He is not only ruthless; he affects ruthlessness; he takes a cynical pleasure in it and exaggerates his conclusions in so far as they are directed against the poor wretches, even beyond the point which would be scientifically justified from his point of view. (Karl Marx)
  
  Now more clearly than ever, the CIA, with its related institutions, is exposed as an agency of destabilization and repression. Throughout its history, it has organized secret wars that killed millions of people in the Third World who had no capability of doing physical harm to the United States. (John Stockwell)
  
  In our day and generation there is only one class which can be depended upon for consistent revolutionary action. That class is the working class. (James Connolly)
  
  Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)
  
  During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). (Lenin)
  
  Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition. (Albert Einstein)
  
  Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only HUMAN. We of the Socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all. (James Connolly)
Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2020 12:55:03 PST Protestation (English)
- Jonathan
Lenin: 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. ... https://gnusocial.no/url/1462391
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  The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. (Albert Einstein)
  
  When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is – The Fed has usurped the government. (Louis T. McFadden)
  
  It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to ‘preserve’ private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism. (Ayn Rand)
  
  Communists the world over are wiser than the bourgeoisie, they understand the laws governing the existence and development of things, they understand dialectics and they can see farther. The bourgeoisie does not welcome this truth because it does not want to be overthrown. To be overthrown is painful and is unbearable to contemplate for those overthrown, for example, for the Kuomintang reactionaries whom we are now overthrowing and for Japanese imperialism which we together with other peoples overthrew some time ago. But for the working class, the labouring people and the Communist Party the question is not one of being overthrown, but of working hard to create the conditions in which classes, state power and political parties will die out very naturally and mankind will enter the realm of Great Harmony. (Mao Zedong)
  
  There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist. (Golda Meir)
  
  When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And “propaganda” got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words “public relations”. (Edward Bernays)
  
  The imperialist bourgeoisie systematically bribed the upper stratum of skilled workers, the so-called labour aristocracy, by means of higher wages and other sops, using for this purpose part of the profits it derived from the colonies, from the exploitation of backward countries. This section of workers had produced quite a number of trade union and cooperative leaders, members of municipal and parliamentary bodies, journalists and functionaries of Social-Democratic organizations. When the war broke out, these people, fearing to lose their positions, became foes of revolution and most zealous defenders of their own bourgeoisies, of their own imperialist governments. (Stalin)
  
  It is David Ricardo’s unique position in history that he was an innovating force in both capitalist and socialist thought. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
  
  The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. (Edward Bernays)
  
  Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual. And if liberty is to be the attribute of the real man, and not of that abstract puppet envisaged by individualistic Liberalism, Fascism is for liberty. And for the only liberty which can be a real thing, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State. Therefore, for the Fascist, everything is in the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. (Mussolini)
  
  Under imperialism the powerful capitalist associations (monopolies) and the banks acquired a dominant position in the life of the capitalist states. Finance capital became master in the capitalist states. Finance capital demanded new markets, the seizure of new colonies, new fields for the export of capital, new sources of raw material. (Stalin)
  
  Workingmen of all countries, unite,\ Side by side we for freedom will fight:\ When the world and its wealth we have gained\ To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain:\ You will eat, bye and bye,\ When you’ve learned how to cook and to fry\ Chop some wood, ’twill do you good,\ And you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye. (Joe Hill)
  
  Fascism is the violent attempt of decaying capitalism to defeat the proletarian revolution and forcibly retard its own demise. Fascism uses demagogy as a science for it dare not declare its aims openly, for it could build no mass support on the basis of its real aims. (Harpal Brar)
  
  We are the opposite of the political parties of the bourgeoisie. They are afraid to speak of the extinction of classes, state power and parties. We, on the contrary, declare openly that we are striving hard to create the very conditions which will bring about their extinction. The leadership of the Communist Party and the state power of the people’s dictatorship are such conditions. Anyone who does not recognize this truth is no communist. (Mao Zedong)
  
  When a man reaches old age, he will die; the same is true of a party. When classes disappear, all instruments of class struggle — parties and the state machinery — will lose their function, cease to be necessary, therefore gradually wither away and end their historical mission; and human society will move to a higher stage. (Mao Zedong)
  
  The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life. (Abraham Lincoln)
  
  All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)
  
  Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. Freedom and justice must be struggled for by the oppressed of all lands and races… (A. Philip Randolph)
  
  Every rebellion implies some kind of unity. (Camus)
  
  We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  
  I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. (Harriet Tubman)
  
  The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. (Che Guevara)
  
  When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
  
  The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. (Fidel Castro)
  
  Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. (W. E. B. Du Bois)
  
  We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. (Che Guevara)
  
  An Ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels)
  
  Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. (Noam Chomsky)
  
  Better to fight for something than live for nothing. (George Patton)
  
  A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. (Cornelius Tacitus)
  
  The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. (Rosa Luxemburg)
  
  No real social change has ever been brought about without a Revolution… Revolution is thought carried into action. (Emma Goldman)
  
  Socialism is the science of example. (Che Guevara)
  
  Truth is on the side of the oppressed. (Malcolm X)
  
  Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to change the world. (Harriet Tubman)
  
  I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. (Huey P. Newton)
  
  The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world. (Charles Malik)
  
  The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament. (Lenin)
  
  Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money. (Daniel Webster)
  
  Be the change you want to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)
  
  The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. (Felix Frankfurter)
  
  Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. (The American Heritage Dictionary, 1983) (Anónimo)
  
  A man of profound ideals, a man in whose mind stirred the dream of struggle. (Fidel Castro)
  
  “It was never pleasing to the Romans, that a general should be killed by his own soldiers” or in another version more common in modern Portugal and Spain “Rome does not pay traitors who kill their chief”. (Quintus Servilius Caepio)
  
  The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood. (Aurelius Augustinus)
  
  When tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign foe. (James Madison)
  
  Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. (Thomas Jefferson)
  
  When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. (Dresden James)
  
  Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. (Napoléon Bonaparte)
  
  When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. (George Bernard Shaw)
  
  The most heinous and the cruelest crimes of which history has recorded have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. (Mahatma Gandhi)
  
  Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway)
  
  The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. (Honoré de Balzac)
  
  The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. (Henry A. Wallace)
  
  Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
  
  I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. (Henry Kissinger)
  
  Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
  
  The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces. (Michael Parenti)
  
  Religion is the opium of the masses. (Karl Marx)
  
  If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it. (Edward Bernays)
  
  There are no such things as classes: they cannot be. Class means caste and caste means race. (Hitler)
  
  People are often told about democracy by those who deny it on their own soil. (Fidel Castro)
  
  A slave who has become conscious of his slavery and has risen to struggle for his emancipation has already half ceased to be a slave. (Lenin)
  
  There are more prisoners in US penal system today than there ever were in Soviet camps. (Daniel Estulin)
  
  Trotsky is the whore of fascism. (Gramsci)
  
  The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality. (Holly Sklar)
  
  Among Latin American elites, a peasant asking for a higher wage or a priest helping organize a peasant cooperative is a communist. And someone going so far as to suggest land reform or a more equitable tax system is a communist fanatic. There is no word or act suggesting the desirability of elite generosity toward the poor, or the need for education, organization or material advance for the majority, that has not been branded communistic in Latin America in recent decades. … Since communism is the enemy and peasants trying to improve themselves, priests with the slightest humanistic proclivity, and naturally anyone seriously challenging the status quo, are communists, they are also, by definition, enemies. (Edward Herman)
  
  One might call this the “Third World War.” It is a war that has been fought by the United States against the Third World. Others call it the Cold War and focus on the anti-Communist and anti-Soviet rationales, but the dead are not Soviets; they are people of the Third World. It might also be called the Forty-Year War, like the Thirty-Year and Hundred-Year Wars in Europe, for this one began when the CIA was founded in 1947 and continues today. Altogether, perhaps twenty million people died in the Cold War. As wars go, it has been the second or third most destructive of human life in all of history, after World War I and World War II. (John Stockwell)
  
  We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters. (Uri Lubrani)
  
  The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word ‘no’. (Churchill)
  
  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Nietzsche)
  
  It is not the case as the naive might think that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, rather . . . it’s the essence of democracy. The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn’t much matter because you’ve got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can’t control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem—it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don’t have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion. (Noam Chomsky)
  
  … somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. (John Foster Dulles)
  
  We enjoy the economic stability that the Armed Forces guarantee us. This [economic] plan can be fulfilled dispite its lack of popular support. It has sufficient political support … that provided buy the Armed Forces. (Martinez de Hoz)
  
  They are going to arrest us all and execute us for Shell. (Ken Saro-Wiwa)
  
  We stand for the maintenance of private property… We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. (Hitler)
  
  The U.S. public is depoliticized, poorly informed on foreign affairs … and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with “another Hitler”. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts … the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war. (Edward Herman)
  
  History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  
  The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system. (Edward Herman)
  
  Now we have a totalitarian government. And the totalitarian government wants to watch everybody, total surveillance of everyone. They listen to the telephone conversations, they look at your credit cards, they look where you travel. We are totally policed. This is contrary to everything in our Constitution. (Gore Vidal)
  
  There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders. (Curtis LeMay)
  
  Socialism means the abolition of classes. The dictatorship of the proletariat has done all it could to abolish classes. But classes cannot be abolished at one stroke. And classes still remain and will remain in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The dictatorship will become unnecessary when classes disappear. Without the dictatorship of the proletariat they will not disappear. Classes have remained, but in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat every class has undergone a change, and the relations between the classes have also changed. The class struggle does not disappear under the dictatorship of the proletariat; it merely assumes different forms. Under capitalism the proletariat was an oppressed class, a class which had been deprived of the means of production, the only class which stood directly and completely opposed to the bourgeoisie, and therefore the only one capable of being revolutionary to the very end. Having overthrown the bourgeoisie and conquered political power, the proletariat has become the ruling class; it wields state power, it exercises control over means of production already socialised; it guides the wavering and intermediary elements and classes; it crushes the increasingly stubborn resistance of the exploiters. All these are specific tasks of the class struggle, tasks which the proletariat formerly did not and could not have set itself. The class of exploiters, the landowners and capitalists, has not disappeared and cannot disappear all at once under the dictatorship of the proletariat. The exploiters have been smashed, but not destroyed. They still have an inter national base in the form of international capital, of which they are a branch. They still retain certain means of production in part, they still have money, they still have vast social connections. Because they have been defeated, the energy of their resistance has increased a hundred and a thousandfold. The “art” of state, military and economic administration gives them a superiority, and a very great superiority, so that their importance is incomparably greater than their numerical proportion of the population. The class struggle waged by the overthrown exploiters against the victorious vanguard of the exploited, i.e., the proletariat, has become incomparably more bitter. And it cannot be otherwise in the case of a revolution, unless this concept is replaced (as it is by all the heroes of the Second International) by reformist illusions. (Lenin)
  
  Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people. (Mao Zedong)
  
  The struggle between socialism and capitalism is the struggle between collectivism and individualism and the superiority of socialism over capitalism is the superiority of collectivism over individualism. (Kim Jong-il)
  
  Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination. (Michael Parenti)
  
  The role of a newspaper, however, is not limited solely to the dissemination of ideas, to political education, and to the enlistment of political allies. A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser. (Lenin)
  
  Fascism began as a rejection of the idea that reason could be used to understand society and resulted, Sternhell argues, in the formation of a ‘new generation of intellectuals [which] rose violently against the rationalist individuals of liberal society’. These intellectuals absorbed the synthesised socialism and nationalism and thus created a new ideology, ‘a socialism without the proletariat’, which duly became fascism. This ideology Sternhell describes as being ‘a synthesis of organic nationalism and anti-Marxist socialism,…’ (David Renton)
  
  The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. (Bertolt Brecht)
  
  We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop)
  
  [The] fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class. (Antonio Negri)
  
  To Marx, Ricardo was the classic and best representative of bourgeois economics since he articulated the contradictions of bourgeois society without glossing them over. (Russell Jacoby)
  
  Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. (Giannina Braschi)
  
  If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or China on Russia, and so forth, those would be “just” “defensive” wars, irrespective of who attacked first; and every Socialist would sympathise with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slave-owning, predatory “great” powers. (Lenin)
  
  No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. (Lenin)
  
  If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. (Haruki Murakami)
  
  Defining the superiority of a nation according to biological or ethnic characteristics is the practice of reactionary, bourgeois ethnology. (Kim Jong-il)
  
  We have applied the Marxist analysis and method to the contemporary scene. (Gudrun Ensslin)
  
  The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. (Eric Ambler)
  
  The Soviet state represents the expression of the highest possible form of democracy. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)
  
  Marx’s philosophy is a consummate philosophical materialism which has provided mankind, and especially the working class, with powerful instruments of knowledge. (Lenin)
  
  Fascist rebelliousness always occurs where fear of the truth turns a revolutionary emotion into illusions. (Wilhelm Reich)
  
  If the state is the executive committee of the great corporation and the planning system, it is partly because neoclassical economics is its instrument for neutralizing the suspicion that this is so. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
  
  The Party possesses all the necessary qualifications for this because, in the first place, it is the rallying centre of the finest elements in the working class, who have direct connections with the non-Party organisations of the proletariat and very frequently lead them; because, secondly, the Party, as the rallying centre of the finest members of the working class, is the best school for training leaders of the working class, capable of directing every form of organisation of their class; because, thirdly, the Party, as the best school for training leaders of the working class, is, by reason of its experience and prestige , the only organisation capable of centralising the leadership of the struggle of the proletariat, thus transforming each and every non-Party organisation of the working class into an auxiliary body and transmission belt linking the Party with the class. (Stalin)
  
  It is terribly difficult to do this; we lack the men! But Preobrazhensky comes along and airily says that Stalin has jobs in two Commissariats. Who among us has not sinned in this way? who has not undertaking several duties at once? And how can we do otherwise? What can we do to preserve the Nationalities; to handle all the Turkestan, Caucasian, and other questions? These are all political questions! They have to be settled. These are questions that have engaged the attention of European states for hundreds of years, and only an infinitesimal number of them have been settled in democratic republics. We are settling them; and we need a man to whom the representatives of any of these nations can go and discuss their difficulties in all detail. Where can we find such a man? I don’t think Comrade Preobrazhensky could suggest any better candidate than Comrade Stalin. (Lenin)
  
  The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest [number] of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. (Jean Baptiste Colbert)
  
  A socialist of any of the oppressor nations (Britain. France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States of America, etc.) who does not recognise and does not struggle for the right of oppressed nations to self-determination (i.e., the right to secession) is in reality a chauvinist, not a socialist. (Lenin)
  
  We want to help, not undermine you (Pinochet). You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende. (Henry Kissinger)
  
  The workers are surrounded on all sides by such a sea of lies in the bourgeois newspapers that they must fight for the truth at all costs, they must learn to recognise falsehoods and reject them. The erroneous views of the liquidators of the workers’ party must be calmly refuted. (Lenin)
  
  Is it possible that a few rich men — a small class of men — have persuaded a million poor men to attack and attempt to destroy another million men as poor as they, so that the rich may be richer still? They told them that this brutal war was the destiny of the race. It was for the glory of the emperor; it was for the honour of the state; it was for their king and country. False — false as hell! They make war to capture markets by murder, raw materials by rape. They find it cheaper to steal than to exchange, easier to butcher than to buy. This is the secret of war. It is the secret of all wars: profit. Business. Profit. Blood money. Threaten a reduction on the profit of their money and the beast in them awakens with a snarl. They become as ruthless as savages, brutal as madmen, remorseless as executioners. (Norman Bethune)
  
  We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution -real girls’ talk. (Nina Simone)
  
  As long as the organization of schooling stays in the hands of the bourgeoisie, the vocational school will be a weapon directed against the interests of the working class. Only the working class can turn the vocational school into a tool for the transformation of contemporary society. (Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya)
  
  I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell. (Hugo Chávez)
  
  Principle of vulgarization. All propaganda must be popular, adapting its level to the least intelligent of the individuals to whom it is directed. The larger the mass to convince, the smaller the mental effort to perform. The receptive capacity of the masses is limited and their understanding scarce; Besides, they have great ease to forget. (Joseph Goebbels)
  
  The traditional tactics and methods of domination of the American bourgeoisie are equally adapted to Fascism, in proportion as occasion arises. If they have not had the same experience as the British bourgeoisie in the domination of colonial peoples, save more recently and on a smaller scale, they have had plenty of experience in their own domain in the suppression of the twelve million Negroes within the United States and of the heavily exploited immigrant populations. The combination of violence, lawlessness and corruption for the maintenance of capitalist domination has reached classic heights in the United States. (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when living. Universally true as this statement is, it applies with more than usual point to the revolutionary hero. (James Connolly)
  
  All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public functions will lose their political character and will be transformed into the simple administrative functions of watching over the true interests of society. (Karl Marx)
  
  We must dare to invent the future. (Thomas Sankara)
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To the Sverdlov University #ClassWarfare http://marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com/Stalin/TSU25.html

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Anti-imperialist meeting calls to fight against the United States for sovereignty https://gnusocial.no/url/1798258
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  The resolution calling on political parties and social organizations to join forces in the fight against United States’ neo-colonial policy was unanimously adopted by delegates of the World Meeting against Imperialism in Caracas
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Variegated Social Reproduction as Critical Thinking #ClassWarfare https://marxistsociology.org/2020/01/variegated-social-reproduction-as-critical-thinking/
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  Variegated Social Reproduction as Critical Thinking
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Friedrich Engels: Private property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all instruments of production and the distribution of all products according to common agreement – in a word, what is called the communal ownership of goods. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes2/#quotenr7021
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  I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people. (Eduardo Galeano)
  
  The problem of Trotskyism is not a struggle between tendencies within the Chinese Communist Party, for between communists and Trotskyists there is no link, absolutely not one link: It is a question that concerns the entire people: the struggle against the Fatherland. (Ho Chi Minh)
  
  The alternatives that confront humanity to-day are serious enough; but they are alternatives of the destruction and anarchy of capitalism, involving still greater poverty and misery in the midst of abundance and rising productive power, or the social organisation of production, bringing abundance for all. The “overpopulation” (like the simultaneous “overproduction”) is only relative to the capitalist conditions of production. (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  When the bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to fascism to maintain itself. (Durruti)
  
  Anarchism is a product of despair. The psychology of the unsettled intellectual or the vagabond and not of the proletarian. (Lenin)
  
  Anarchism is bourgeois individualism in reverse. Individualism as the basis of the entire anarchist world outlook. (Lenin)
  
  It has been my endeavour to show in this work that a fall of wages would have no other effect than to raise profits. (David Ricardo)
  
  The sole “property” of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. (Lenin)
  
  Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… (Helen Keller)
  
  To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize? (Kevin Alfred Strom)
  
  Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. (Bertolt Brecht)
  
  You no doubt know that the greatest part of this victory was achieved by the Soviet people, by the people who live in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Unfortunately, we used to believe that the 20th century was the bloodiest, but we now see in the 21st century a new danger to humanity in the form of terrorism. (Bashar al-Assad)
  
  There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that? (David Ben Gurion)
  
  An unjust law is itself a species of violence. (Mahatma Gandhi)
  
  Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. (Mary Harris (Mother) Jones)
  
  Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. (Camus)
  
  Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. (Vaclav Havel)
  
  A riot is the language of the unheard. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  
  Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. (Tupac Shakur)
  
  Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none! (Johann Most)
  
  When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. (Victor Hugo)
  
  I was born in revolution. (Mary Harris (Mother) Jones)
  
  If nothing is left, one must scream, because silence is the biggest crime against humanity. (Nadezhda Mandelstam)
  
  One of the symptoms of revolution is the sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active interest in politics. (Lenin)
  
  We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. (Che Guevara)
  
  First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. (Mahatma Gandhi)
  
  The king must die so that the country can live. (Robespierre)
  
  To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. (Rita Mae Brown)
  
  A right delayed is a right denied. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  
  A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature. (John Stuart Mill)
  
  The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Steve Biko)
  
  The spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. (Ernst Toller)
  
  He is no revolutionist who would have the revolution of the proletariat only under the “condition” that it proceed smoothly. (Tchernychewski)
  
  We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. (Angela Davis)
  
  Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the “petty” – supposedly petty – details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for “paupers”!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc., – we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy. (Lenin)
  
  So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. (Voltaire)
  
  I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. (Abraham Lincoln)
  
  In politics, nothing happens by accident, if it happens, you can be sure we planned it that way. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
  
  People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. (James Baldwin)
  
  You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. (Pablo Neruda)
  
  That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. The Rights of Man”, circa 1792 (Thomas Paine)
  
  When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. (Plátōn)
  
  A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow)
  
  If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within. (James Madison)
  
  Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. (James Madison)
  
  The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. (Dresden James)
  
  Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain. (Napoléon Bonaparte)
  
  All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. (Voltaire)
  
  All war is based on deception. (Sun Tzu)
  
  All the promises of the free market have turned out to be lies. (Chris Hedges)
  
  If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (JFK)
  
  If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. (Henry A. Wallace)
  
  Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific knowhow. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Under such circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation it exploits. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
  
  The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. (Henry A. Wallace)
  
  Materialism is the recognition of “objects in themselves”, or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. (Lenin)
  
  The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. (Albert Einstein)
  
  Rich men and crooks are two sides of the same coin, two of the main elements nourished by capitalism. (Lenin)
  
  The friends of peace in bourgeois circles believe that world peace and disarmament can be realised within the frame-work of the present social order, whereas we, who base ourselves on the materialistic conception of history and on scientific socialism, are convinced that militarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state. (Rosa Luxemburg)
  
  A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable. (Edward Bernays)
  
  Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out. (John McCarthy)
  
  So you have two types of Negro. The old type and the new type. Most of you know the old type. When you read about him in history during slavery he was called “Uncle Tom.” He was the house Negro. And during slavery you had two Negroes. You had the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negro usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master’s second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master’s house–probably in the basement or the attic–but he still lived in the master’s house. So whenever that house Negro identified himself, he always identified himself in the same sense that his master identified himself. When his master said, “We have good food, ” the house Negro would say, “Yes, we have plenty of good food.” “We” have plenty of good food. When the master said that “we have a fine home here, ” the house Negro said, “Yes, we have a fine home here.” When the master would be sick, the house Negro identified himself so much with his master he’d say, “What’s the matter boss, we sick?” His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses–the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. [Laughter] If his house caught on fire, they’d pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze. If someone came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate, ” naturally that Uncle Tom would say, “Go where? What could I do without boss? Where would I live? How would I dress? Who would look out for me?” That’s the house Negro. But if you went to the field Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate, ” he wouldn’t even ask you where or how. He’d say, “Yes, let’s go.” And that one ended right there. (Malcolm X)
  
  To fight against the impossible and win. (Fidel Castro)
  
  Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grab will go to them. (Ariel Sharon)
  
  The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. (Cornelius Tacitus)
  
  In the so called mistakes of Stalin lies the difference between a revolutionary attitude and a revisionist attitude. You have to look at Stalin in the historical context in which he moves, you don’t have to look at him as some kind of brute, but in that particular historical context. I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good. (Che Guevara)
  
  Now, to balance the scale, I’d like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. ‘Cause that’s all you ever hear about in this country. It’s our differences. That’s all the media and the politicians are ever talking about—the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different—that’s what they’re gonna talk about—race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep ’em showing up at those jobs. (George Carlin)
  
  You will burn in Hell for thousands of migrants from Africa and for supporting Al-Qaeda. (Muammar Gaddafi)
  
  That white person you see calling himself a liberal is the most dangerous thing in the western hemisphere…he’s like a fox. (Malcolm X)
  
  The big lie about capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That’s impossible. Capitalism works only if the vast majority of the population are kept poor enough to never quit working, are kept poor enough to accept distasteful jobs society cannot function without. If everyone were a millionaire, who would empty the trash or repair the sewers? It follows that the poorer the general population is made, the greater the worth of the money held by the wealthy, in terms of the lives which may be bought and sold with it. (Michael Rivero)
  
  By the later years of the Reagan regime, a preferred nomenclature suited to U.S. interests became standardized for the Third World. In the case of nations to be rolled back (e.g., Nicaragua), governments were called terrorist and the insurgents were labeled democratic. In the case of countries to be supported against “communist” insurgencies (e.g., El Salvador and the Philippines), the governments were called democratic and the insurgents were labeled terrorists. (Thomas Bodenheimer)
  
  Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world – particularly the Third World – since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media. (Ralph McGehee)
  
  We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population. (Israel Koenig)
  
  Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
  
  U.S. Naval psychologists specially selected men for these commando tasks from submarine crews, paratroops, and some convicted murderers were being released from prisons to become assassins. (Thomas Narut)
  
  Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent…Representative government required to speak, LIES with impunity. (Napoléon Bonaparte)
  
  The first casualty of war is truth. (Rudyard Kipling)
  
  The modern liberal state … often uses deception to gain its ends — not so much deception of the foreign enemy, but of its own citizens, who have been taught to trust their leaders. (Howard Zinn)
  
  … U. S. business wants a “favorable climate of investment” abroad, and … military regimes that will crush labor unions and otherwise serve foreign business meet that demand. (Edward Herman)
  
  With unfailing consistancy, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries … whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. (Michael Parenti)
  
  U.S. Ieaders commit war crimes as a matter of institutional necessity, as their imperial role calls for keeping subordinate peoples in their proper place and assuring a “favorable climate of investment” everywhere. They do this by using their economic power, but also (by means of “bombs bursting in the air” and) by supporting Diem, Mobutu, Pinochet, Suharto, Savimbi, Marcos, Fujimori, Salinas, and scores of similar leaders. War crimes also come easily because U.S. Ieaders consider themselves to be the vehicles of a higher morality and truth and can operate in violation of law without cost. It is also immensely helpful that their mainstream media agree that their country is above the law and will support and rationalize each and every venture and the commission of war crimes. (Edward Herman)
  
  As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. (Robert McChesney)
  
  Peace cannot exist without equality. (Edward Said)
  
  The great masses of the people at the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously evil … they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. (Hitler)
  
  We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure? (Curtis LeMay)
  
  All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. (Upton Sinclair)
  
  Private property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all instruments of production and the distribution of all products according to common agreement – in a word, what is called the communal ownership of goods. (Friedrich Engels)
  
  Class-conscious workers stand for the complete unity of the workers of all countries in each and every educational, industrial, and political organisation. (R. F. Andrews)
  
  In Lenin I honor a man, who in total sacrifice of his own person has committed his entire energy to realizing social justice. I do not find his methods advisable. One thing is certain, however: men like him are the guardians and renewers [Erneuerer] of mankind’s conscience. (Albert Einstein)
  
  Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. There corresponds to this also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. (Karl Marx)
  
  Israel was created by Western imperialism and maintained by Western firepower. (Huey P. Newton)
  
  The masses are the teachers of everything and the creators of everything. (Kim Jong-il)
  
  Against the collective power of the propertied classes, the working class cannot act as a class except by constituting itself into a political party distinct from, and opposed to, all old parties formed from the propertied classes. (Karl Marx)
  
  The Muslim Terrorist Apparatus was Created by US Intelligence as a Geopolitical Weapon. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
  
  The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks…. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul. (Stalin)
  
  We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history. (Muammar Gaddafi)
  
  The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets. (Frank Church)
  
  Market society was born in England—yet it was on the Continent that its weaknesses engendered the most tragic complications. In order to comprehend German fascism, we must revert to Ricardian England. The nineteenth century, as cannot be overemphasized, was England’s century. The Industrial Revolution was an English event. Market economy, free trade, and the gold standard were English inventions. These institutions broke down in the twenties everywhere—in Germany, Italy, or Austria the event was merely more political and more dramatic. But whatever the scenery and the temperature of the final episodes, the long-run factors which wrecked that civilization should be studied in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, England. (Karl Polanyi)
  
  Empire is emerging today as the center that supports the globalization of productive networks and casts its widely inclusive net to try to envelop all power relations within its world order — and yet at the same time it deploys a powerful police function against the new barbarians and the rebellious slaves who threaten its order. (Antonio Negri)
  
  The substitution of one social system for another is a complicated and long revolutionary process. It is not simply a spontaneous process, but a struggle, it is a process connected with the clash of classes. Capitalism is decaying, but it must not be compared simply with a tree which has decayed to such an extent that it must fall to the ground of its own accord. No, revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle. And every time the people of the new world came into power they had to defend themselves against the attempts of the old world to restore the old power by force; these people of the new world always had to be on the alert, always had to be ready to repel the attacks of the old world upon the new system. (Stalin)
  
  For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight. (John Maynard Keynes)
  
  All propaganda for socialism must be refashioned from abstract and general to concrete and directly practical. (Lenin)
  
  Capitalism is religion. Banks are churches. Bankers are priests. Wealth is heaven. Poverty is hell. Rich people are saints. Poor people are sinners. Commodities are blessings. Money is God. (Miguel D. Lewis)
  
  The only symbol of superiority that I know is kindness. (Beethoven)
  
  We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary. (Lenin)
  
  One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes made by Communists is the idea that a revolution can be made by revolutionaries alone. On the contrary, to be successful, all serious revolutionary work requires that the idea that revolutionaries are capable of playing the part only of the vanguard of the truly virile and advanced class must be understood and translated into action. (Lenin)
  
  I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. (Jorge Luis Borges)
  
  We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. (Chris Hedges)
  
  I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human. (Frida Kahlo)
  
  This fascist state intends to kill all of us. We must organize resistance. Violence can only be answered with violence. This is the generation of Auschwitz [referring to the West German government and society], you cannot argue with them. (Gudrun Ensslin)
  
  Marxism-Leninism … teaches that the legal relationships (and, consequently, law itself) are rooted in the material conditions of life, and that law is merely the will of the dominant class, elevated into a statute. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)
  
  The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. (Karl Marx)
  
  If, by being revolutionary, one means rational rebellion against intolerable social conditions, if, by being radical, one means “going to the root of things,” the rational will to improve them, then fascism is never revolutionary. (Wilhelm Reich)
  
  The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin. (Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin)
  
  Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
  
  The present-day capitalist economy in China is a capitalist economy which for the most part is under the control of the People’s Government and which is linked with the state-owned socialist economy in various forms and supervised by the workers. It is not an ordinary but a particular kind of capitalist economy, namely, a state-capitalist economy of a new type. It exists not chiefly to make profits for the capitalists but to meet the needs of the people and the state. True, a share of the profits produced by the workers goes to the capitalists, but that is only a small part, about one quarter, of the total. The remaining three quarters are produced for the workers (in the form of the welfare fund), for the state (in the form of income tax) and for expanding productive capacity (a small part of which produces profits for the capitalists). Therefore, this state-capitalist economy of a new type takes on a socialist character to a very great extent and benefits the workers and the state. (Mao Zedong)
  
  He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost. (Bertolt Brecht)
  
  We have a marvelous Georgian who has sat down to write a big article for Prosveshcheniye, for which he has collected all the Austrian and other materials. (Lenin)
  
  The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. (Gramsci)
  
  Make the economy scream [in Chile] to prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him. (Richard Nixon)
  
  You cannot trust in imperialism, not even a little bit… Not at all! (Che Guevara)
  
  Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeois and of its rule. It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on its trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented. The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians. In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed — a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. (Karl Marx)
  
  Principle of exaggeration and disfigurement. Make any anecdote, however small, a serious threat. (Joseph Goebbels)
  
  The bourgeoisie will use any and every instrument of struggle as occasion arisese It is for the working class and its allies to be prepared for the fight in front. (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  Every specific turn in history causes some change in the form of petty-bourgeois wavering, which always occurs alongside the proletariat, and which, in one degree or an other, always penetrates its midst. This wavering flows in two “streams”: petty-bourgeois reformism, i.e., servility to the bourgeoisie covered by a cloak of sentimental democratic and “Social”-Democratic phrases and fatuous wishes; and petty-bourgeois revolutionism—menacing, blustering and boastful in words, but a mere bubble of disunity, disruption and brainlessness in deeds. This wavering will inevitably occur until the taproot of capitalism is cut. (Lenin)
  
  Since 1954, however, we have not parachuted teams into the Soviet Union – our number one enemy – to destabilize that country… Neither do we run these violent operations in England, France, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, or Switzerland. Since the mid-1950s they have all been conducted in Third World countries where governments do not have the power to force the United States to stop its brutal and destabilizing campaigns. (John Stockwell)
  
  In essence, Marxism and Marxist notions need to evolve with the development of historical conditions. It is on the basis of Marxist methodology that Marxism evolves. In the conditions of the last stage of capitalism, imperialism, Marxism becomes Marxism-Leninism. Refuting Leninism is tantamount to decrying Marxism, as anti-Leninism is rendered a form of anti-Marxism. Marxism to- day cannot be understood without Lenin’s contribution to Marxism. (R. Palme Dutt)
  
  Yet the Second World War began not as a war with the U.S.S.R., but as a war between capitalist countries. Why? Firstly, because war with the U.S.S.R., as a socialist land, is more dangerous to capitalism than war between capitalist countries; for whereas war between capitalist countries puts in question only the supremacy of certain capitalist countries over others, war with the U.S.S.R. must certainly put in question the existence of capitalism itself. Secondly, because the capitalists, although they clamour, for “propaganda” purposes, about the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union, do not themselves believe that it is aggressive, because they are aware of the Soviet Union’s peaceful policy and know that it will not itself attack capitalist countries. (Stalin)
  
  It’s not my fault if reality is Marxist. (Che Guevara)
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