Mao Zedong: You are right, [dictatorial] is just what we are. All the experiences [of] the Chinese people ... [teach] us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Why does the international proletariat support us? How did we merit this support? By the fact that we were the first to hurl ourselves into the battle against capitalism, we were the first to establish working-class state power, we were the first to begin building socialism. By the fact that we were engaged on a cause which, if successful, will transform the whole world and free the entire working class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: We must march forward in such a way that the working class of the whole world, looking at us, may say: There you have my advanced detachment, my shock brigade, my working-class state power, my fatherland; they are engaged on their cause, our cause, and they are working well; let us support them against the capitalists and promote the cause of the world revolution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ho Chi Minh: With regard to the Vietnamese revolution and Vietnamese people, Leninism is not only a valuable ‘vade-mecum’ and a compass, but it is also the sun which lightens the road for us to go to final victory, to socialism and communism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Haile Selassie I: Discipline gives total freedom; it allows you to go beyond your limitations and to reach the ultimate goal. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: But capital not only lives upon labor. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses of its slaves, whole hecatombs of workers, who perish in the crises. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fred Hampton: Not theory and theory alone, but theory and practice. The two go together. We not only thought about the Marxist-Leninist theory—we put it into practice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-Il: The masses are the teachers of everything and the creators of everything. A leader only acquires wisdom, leadership, and virtue by going among the masses. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-Il: Unlike in capitalist society where every realm of social life is based on individualism, a socialist society is a collective society where all the people work together sharing a common goal and common interests. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: If I lose, it will not mean that it was impossible to win. Many were defeated trying to reach the top of Everest, and in the end Everest was defeated. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Z. Foster: [W]e face a tremendous educational problem in the sense that we have to help the masses of the American people understand that the United States has embarked on an imperialist policy aimed at domination of the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
