Mao Zedong: In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8790
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Karl Marx: The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of the workers. This union ...Protestation
Lenin: The Great French Revolution ushered in a new epoch in the history of mankind. From that time to the Paris Commune, from 1789 to 1871, one of the types of wars were wars of a bourgeois-progressive, national-liberating character. In other words, the chief content and historical significance of these wars were the overthrow of absolutism and feudalism, the undermining of these institutions, the overthrow of alien oppression. Therefore, those were progressive wars, and during such wars, all honest, revolutionary democrats, and also all Socialists, always sympathised with the success of that country (i.e., with that bourgeoisie), which had helped to overthrow, or sap, the most dangerous foundation of feudalism, absolutism and the oppression of other nations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8791
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Lenin: Imperialism is the highest stage in the development of capitalism, reached only in the twentieth century. Capitalism now finds the old national states, without the formation of which it could not have overthrown feudalism, too tight for it. Capitalism has developed concentration to such a degree that whole branches of industry have been seized by syndicates, trusts and associations of capitalist billionaires, and almost the entire globe has been divided up among the "lords of capital, either in the form of colonies, or by enmeshing other countries in thousands of threads of financial exploitation. Free trade and competition have been superseded by the striving for monopoly, for the seizure of territory for the investment of capital, for the export of raw materials from them, and so forth. From the liberator of nations that capitalism was in the struggle against feudalism, imperialist capitalism has become the greatest oppressor of nations. Formerly progressive, capitalism has become reactionary; it has developed the forces of production to such a degree that mankind is faced with the alternative of going over to Socialism or of suffering years and even decades of armed struggle between the "great powers for the artificial preservation of capitalism by means of colonies, monopolies, privileges and national oppression of every kind. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8792
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Lenin: Our slogan must be: arming of the proletariat to defeat, expropriate and disarm the bourgeoisie. These are the only tactics possible for a revolutionary class, tactics that follow logically from, and are dictated by, the whole objective development of capitalist militarism. Only after the proletariat has disarmed the bourgeoisie will it be able, without betraying its world-historic mission, to consign all armaments to the scrap-heap. And the proletariat will undoubtedly do this, but only when this condition has been fulfilled, certainly not before. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8793
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Chris Hedges: The final stages of capitalism, Marx wrote, would be marked by developments that are intimately familiar to most of us. Una...Protestation
Lenin: An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8794
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Chris Hedges: The final stages of capitalism, Marx wrote, would be marked by developments that are intimately familiar to most of us. Una...Protestation
Lenin: In every class society, whether based on slavery, serfdom, or, as at present, wage-labor, the oppressor class is always armed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8795
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Chris Hedges: The final stages of capitalism, Marx wrote, would be marked by developments that are intimately familiar to most of us. Una...Protestation
Kim Jong-il: The more the imperialists have intensified their counterrevolutionary and anti-socialist offensives to stifle the independent interests of the masses, the more resolutely our Party has defended and implemented revolutionary principles. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8796
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Chris Hedges: The final stages of capitalism, Marx wrote, would be marked by developments that are intimately familiar to most of us. Una...Protestation
Tom Mann: We socialists declare that the whole world bears witness to the truth of the statement as to the effects of production for profit for capitalists, and that being so we declare the present system stands condemned. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8797
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Chris Hedges: Karl Marx exposed the peculiar dynamics of capitalism, or what he called “the bourgeois mode of production.” He foresaw tha...Protestation
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Bashar al-Assad: The price for rejection or resistance is much less than the price of submission and surrender. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8798
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Lenin: The capitalists divide the world, not out of any particular malice, but because the degree of concentration which has been reached...Protestation
Tom Mann: A socialist is one who, having investigated the causes of present day social discord, decides that these causes are found in the private ownership of the means of wealth production and who therefore endorses the necessity for co-operative ownership in order to eliminate private or sectional monopoly, and secure the advantages for the whole people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8799
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Lenin: The capitalists divide the world, not out of any particular malice, but because the degree of concentration which has been reached...Protestation
Lenin: Proletarian democracy is a million times more democratic than any bourgeois democracy; Soviet power is a million times more democratic than the most democratic bourgeois republic. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8800
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Lenin: The Soviets are the direct organisation of the working and exploited people themselves, which helps them to organise and administe...Protestation
Lenin: The Soviets are the direct organisation of the working and exploited people themselves, which helps them to organise and administer their own state in every possible way. And in this it is the vanguard of the working and exploited people, the urban proletariat, that enjoys the advantage of being best united by the large enterprises; it is easier for it than for all others to elect and exercise control over those elected. The Soviet form of organisation automatically helps to unite all the working and exploited people around their vanguard, the proletariat. The old bourgeois apparatus-the bureaucracy, the privileges of wealth, of bourgeois education, of social connections, etc. (these real privileges are the more varied the more highly bourgeois democracy is developed)-all this disappears under the Soviet form of organisation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8801
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Tom Mann: We therefore declare that the present capitalist system is based upon the legalised robbery of the wealth producers by the land...Protestation
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Tom Mann: We therefore declare that the present capitalist system is based upon the legalised robbery of the wealth producers by the land monopolists, machinery monopolists and financial monopolists, and the undoubted object of socialism is to get rid of these monopolists as speedily as possible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8802
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Lenin: It is now essential that Communists of every country should quite consciously take into account both the fundamental objectives of...Protestation
Lenin: It is now essential that Communists of every country should quite consciously take into account both the fundamental objectives of the struggle against opportunism and "Left" doctrinairism, and the concrete features which this struggle assumes and must inevitably assume in each country, in conformity with the specific character of its economics, politics, culture, and national composition (Ireland, etc.), its colonies, religious divisions, and so on and so forth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8803
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Tom Mann: Socialism does not aim at making any the slaves of governments, but to gradually and surely get rid of all governments other th...Protestation
Tom Mann: There can be no real socialism where exploitation obtains, under socialism no person can live idly upon the labour of others by receiving unearned income in the forms of interest, profit or rent. Therefore socialism means the, complete supercession of the present capitalist system, of private ownership and control of land, machinery, and money, necessary for reproductive purposes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8804
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Tom Mann: Socialism does not aim at making any the slaves of governments, but to gradually and surely get rid of all governments other th...Protestation
Tom Mann: Socialism does not aim at making any the slaves of governments, but to gradually and surely get rid of all governments other than the self-government of free and intelligent citizens. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8805
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Lenin: The transition from capitalism to communism takes an entire historical epoch. Until this epoch is over, the exploiters inevitably ...Protestation
Tom Mann: True morality forbids exploitation, the present individualist system of conducting industry necessitates exploitation, and therefore is immoral. The results of this immoral system are found in a minority of persons receiving large incomes without working, and many persons deprived of the opportunity of a livelihood. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8806
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Lenin: The transition from capitalism to communism takes an entire historical epoch. Until this epoch is over, the exploiters inevitably ...Protestation
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Lenin: The transition from capitalism to communism takes an entire historical epoch. Until this epoch is over, the exploiters inevitably cherish the hope of restoration, and this hope turns into attempts at restoration. After their first serious defeat, the overthrown exploiters-who had not expected their overthrow, never believed it possible, never conceded the thought of it-throw themselves with energy grown tenfold, with furious passion and hatred grown a hundredfold, into the battle for the recovery of the "paradise", of which they were deprived, on behalf of their families, who had been leading such a sweet and easy life and whom now the "common herd" is condemning to ruin and destitution (or to "common" labour . . .). https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8807
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Lenin: The exploiters can be defeated at one stroke in the event of a successful uprising at the centre, or of a revolt in the army. But ...Protestation
Lenin: The exploiters can be defeated at one stroke in the event of a successful uprising at the centre, or of a revolt in the army. But except in very rare and special cases, the exploiters cannot be destroyed at one stroke. It is impossible to expropriate all the landowners and capitalists of any big country at one stroke. Furthermore, expropriation alone, as a legal or political act, does not settle the matter by a long chalk, because it is necessary to depose the landowners and capitalists in actual fact, to replace their management of the factories and estates by a different management, workers' management, in actual fact. There can be no equality between the exploiters-who for many generations have been better off because of their education, conditions of wealthy life, and habits-and the exploited, the majority of whom even in the most advanced and most democratic bourgeois republics are downtrodden, backward, ignorant, intimidated and disunited. For a long time after the revolution the exploiters inevitably continue to retain a number of great practical advantages: they still have money (since it is impossible to abolish money all at once); some movable property-often fairly considerable; they still have various connections, habits of organisation and management; knowledge of all the "secrets" (customs, methods, means and possibilities) of management; superior education; close connections with the higher technical personnel (who live and think like the bourgeoisie); incomparably greater experience in the art of war (this is very important), and so on and so forth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8808
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Karl Marx: In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour time.Ro...Protestation
Karl Marx: In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour time. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8809
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Rosa Luxemburg: The imperialist capitalist class, as the last offspring of the caste of exploiters, surpasses all its predecessors as far...Protestation
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Rosa Luxemburg: The imperialist capitalist class, as the last offspring of the caste of exploiters, surpasses all its predecessors as far as brutality, open cynicism, and rascality are concerned. It will defend its «holy of holies» – its profits and privileges of exploitation – tooth and nail. It will defend them with the cold-blooded viciousness which it manifested during the history of its colonial policy and during the last World War. It will move heaven and hell against the workers. It will mobilise the peasantry against the industrial workers. It will set the backward elements of the proletariat against the vanguard of socialism. It will get its officers to commit massacres. It will attempt to nullify socialist measures by a hundred and one methods of passive resistance. It will put in the way of the revolution twenty uprisings à La Vendee3. To save itself it will invoke the assistance of the foreign enemy, the murderous armed force of a Clemenceau, a Lloyd George, or a Wilson4. It will sooner turn the country into a smoking heap of ruins than voluntarily relinquish its power to exploit the working class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8810
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Rosa Luxemburg: The imperialist capitalist class, as the last offspring of the caste of exploiters, surpasses all its predecessors as far...Protestation
Lenin: Marx and Engels had said: equality is an empty phrase if it does not imply the abolition of classes. We want to abolish classes, and in this sense we are for equality. But the claim that we want all men to be alike is just nonsense, the silly invention of an intellectual who sometimes conscientiously strikes a pose, juggles with words, but says nothing—I don’t care whether he calls himself a writer, a scholar, or anything else. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8811
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Tom Mann: Socialism does not aim at robbing the rich but at preventing the rich from continuing to rob the poor.Lenin: We must not depict...Protestation
Tom Mann: Socialism does not aim at robbing the rich but at preventing the rich from continuing to rob the poor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8812
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Lenin: We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a sin...Protestation
Lenin: We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the -class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters-then we are for it! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8813
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George L. Jackson: Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here,...Protestation
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George L. Jackson: Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8814
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George L. Jackson: At its core, fascism is an economic rearrangement. It is international capitalism’s response to the challenge of inter...Protestation
George L. Jackson: At its core, fascism is an economic rearrangement. It is international capitalism’s response to the challenge of international scientific socialism. It developed from nation to nation out of differing levels of traditionalist capitalism’s dilapidation. The common feature of all instances of fascism is the opposition of a weak socialist revolution. When the fascist arrangement begins to emerge in any of the independent nation-states, it does so by default! It is simply an arrangement of an established capitalist economy, an attempt to renew, perpetuate and legitimize that economy’s rulers by circumflexing and weighing down, diffusing a revolutionary consciousness pushing from below. Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis. It is the result of a revolutionary thrust that was weak and miscarried–a consciousness that was compromised. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8815
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George L. Jackson: When a nation can’t admit to the process through which it builds hegemony, how can anything but delusion be a reality?...Protestation
George L. Jackson: When a nation can’t admit to the process through which it builds hegemony, how can anything but delusion be a reality? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8816
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Friedrich Engels: Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source - next to nature, whic...Protestation
Friedrich Engels: Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source - next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8817
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Trotsky: My letter to Chkheidze against Lenin was published during this period (i.e., l924- Ed.). This episode, dating back to April 1913...Protestation
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Trotsky: My letter to Chkheidze against Lenin was published during this period (i.e., l924- Ed.). This episode, dating back to April 1913, grew out of the fact that the ‘official Bolshevik newspaper then published in St. Petersburg had appropriated the title of my Viennese publication, ‘The Pravda — a Labour Paper’. This led to one of those sharp conflicts so frequent in the lives of the foreign exiles. In a letter written to Chkheidze, I gave vent to my indignation at the Bolshevik centre and at Lenin. Two or three weeks later, I would undoubtedly have subjected my letter to a strict censor’s revision; a year or two later still, it would have seemed a curiosity in my own eyes. But that letter was to have a peculiar destiny. It was intercepted on its way by the Police Department. It rested in the police archives until the October revolution, when it went to the Institute of History of the Communist Party. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8818
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Jan Sejna: I was accompanying the Cuban delegation led by Defense Minister Raul Castro…The whole delegation was in a good mood when we we...Protestation
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Jan Sejna: I was accompanying the Cuban delegation led by Defense Minister Raul Castro…The whole delegation was in a good mood when we were returning from Litomerice. I was in a car with Raul Castro and Luis Martino. During the ride, we exchanged opinions on some international and party issues…they said they made their own assessment of J.V. Stalin’s work because he was a great fighter against imperialism. I told them that the CPSU, cde. Khrushchev or our party never said that imperialism would be any different than before, or that it was not necessary to fight against it. I emphasized that we fully support the position of the CPSU and the Moscow Declaration. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8819
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Lenin: …the victory of socialism in one country does not at one stroke eliminate all war in general. On the contrary, it presupposes wars...Protestation