Kang Sheng: We must carry out severe suppression of counterrevolutionaries, this is the greatest form of democracy... We must carry out dictatorship over counterrevolutionary elements... Only revolutionaries have freedom of speech. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Soviet socialist democracy is not in the least incompatible with individual rule and dictatorship. The will of a class may sometimes be carried out by a dictator who can sometimes do more all by himself and who is frequently more essential. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Casey: We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: For the workers' and peasants' government, freedom of the press means liberation of the press from capitalist oppression, and public ownership of paper mills and printing presses; equal right for public groups of a certain size (say, numbering 10, 000) to a fair share of newsprint stocks and a corresponding quantity of printers' labour. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bruce Lee: Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ho Chi Minh: The mode and forces of production ceaselessly develop and change; so do, therefore, man's thinking, social systems, etc. All of us know that from the past to the present, the mode of production has evolved from the use of tree branches and stone axes to that of machines, electricity and nuclear energy. Social systems have also developed from primitive communism through slave-ownership and feudalism to capitalism, and today nearly half of mankind is progressing to socialism and communism. No one can stop this development and progress. With the coming into being of private ownership, society has been divided into classes - exploiting classes and exploited ones -, hence the emergence of social contradictions and class struggle. Any person necessarily belongs to one class or another and no one can stand outside the classes. At the same time, each individual represents the ideology of the own class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Don Lorenzo Milani: I learned that other people’s problems match my own. Overcoming them together is politics. Overcoming them on your own is avarice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Napoleon Bonaparte: Well analyzed, political freedom is a fable imagined by Governments to numb to their constituencies. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: In all capitalist countries throughout the world, the bourgeoisie resorts to two methods in its struggle against the working-class movement and the workers’ parties. One method is that of violence, persecution, bans, and suppression. In its fundamentals, this is a feudal, medieval method. Everywhere there are sections and groups of the bourgeoisie—smaller in the advanced countries and larger in the backward ones—which prefer these methods, and in certain, highly critical moments in the workers’ struggle against wage-slavery, the 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 bourgeoisie is agreed on the employment of such methods. Historical examples of such moments are provided by Chartism in England, and 1849 and 1871 in France. The other method the bourgeoisie employs against the movement is that of dividing the workers, disrupting their ranks, bribing individual representatives or certain groups of the proletariat with the object of winning them over to its side. These are not feudal but 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮... Show more...
Lenin: In all capitalist countries throughout the world, the bourgeoisie resorts to two methods in its struggle against the working-class movement and the workers’ parties. One method is that of violence, persecution, bans, and suppression. In its fundamentals, this is a feudal, medieval method. Everywhere there are sections and groups of the bourgeoisie—smaller in the advanced countries and larger in the backward ones—which prefer these methods, and in certain, highly critical moments in the workers’ struggle against wage-slavery, the 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 bourgeoisie is agreed on the employment of such methods. Historical examples of such moments are provided by Chartism in England, and 1849 and 1871 in France. The other method the bourgeoisie employs against the movement is that of dividing the workers, disrupting their ranks, bribing individual representatives or certain groups of the proletariat with the object of winning them over to its side. These are not feudal but 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮 bourgeois and modern methods, in keeping with the developed and civilised customs of capitalism, with the democratic system. For the democratic system is a feature of bourgeois society, the most pure and perfect bourgeois feature, in which the utmost freedom, scope and clarity of the class struggle are combined with the utmost cunning, with ruses and subterfuges aimed at spreading the “ideological” influence of the bourgeoisie among the wage-slaves with the object of diverting them from their struggle against wage-slavery. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kwame Nkrumah: We are not fighting against a race and colour and creed. We are fighting against a system, a system which degrades and exploits, and wherever we find the system, that system must be abolished … we abhor man’s inhumanity against man. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The history of modern, civilized America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars... That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery, in the same way as these “civilized” bloodsuckers are still oppressing and holding in colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt, and all parts of the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: You are making the socialist revolution, and yet you don’t know where the bourgeoisie is. It is right inside the Communist Party - those in power taking the capitalist road. The capitalist roaders are still on the capitalist road. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: The dictatorship of the proletariat is needed for the purpose of waging a relentless struggle against the capitalist elements, for the purpose of suppressing the bourgeoisie and of uprooting capitalism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ghassan Kanafani: Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Muammar Gaddafi: The terrorists who hit New York were not Afghani. They did not use airplanes or take off from Iraq or Afghanistan. They flew from JFK airport, here. The whole action was done in America. They were trained in America. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: And what was the Napoleonic government? A bourgeois government which strangled the French Revolution and retained only those results of the revolution which were advantageous to the big bourgeoisie. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bible: And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
