Joel Bleifuss: We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Higham: ...a number of financial and industrial figures of World War II and several members of the government served the cause of money before the cause of patriotism. While aiding the United States' war effort, they also aided Nazi Germany's. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Higham: ... several of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tony Benn: All the emphasis on crime and drugs and pornography used to justify the suppression of the internet is really aimed at suppressing knowledge of the radical politic alternatives that are now available. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Hermann Hesse: The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Noam Chomsky: ... 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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lazar Kaganovich: First, Stalin is disowned, now, little by little, they come to prosecute socialism, the October Revolution, and in no time they will also want to prosecute Lenin and Marx. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Liu Shaoqi: (I)t is important to never divorce ourselves from the current revolutionary struggle of the masses, but to identify ourselves with it, to study, sum up & apply the revolutionary experience of the past. (W)e must cultivate & temper ourselves in revolutionary practice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Noam Chomsky: That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Assata Shakur: Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Issac Asimov: The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Georges Politzer: (O)ur ideas are the reflection of things... We find that men live in a capitalist society and that their ideas appear in this society and are derived from it. A proletarian thinks like a proletarian, and a bourgeois thinks like a bourgeois. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nelson Mandela: We first broke the law in a way which avoided any recourse to violence; when this form was legislated against, and then the government resorted to a show of force to crush opposition to its policies, only then did we decide to answer violence with violence. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Big Bill Haywood: The mine owners "did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: The West, with its imperialist cannibals, has become a breeding ground of darkness and slavery. The task is to destroy this breeding ground, to the joy and comfort of the working people of all countries. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Georgi Dimitrov: (Fascism is) the terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialistic elements of finance capital. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: However great one’s contempt for all theoretical thought, nevertheless one cannot bring two natural facts into relation with one another, or understand the connection existing between them, without theoretical thought. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kaysone Phomvihane: (T)he moment (the working class) comes into being it is the sole class capable of uniting & leading all working people in the struggle to overthrow capitalism, liberate the nation, build a socialist society, & set (it) on the path of progressive development. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Caitlin Johnstone: Capitalism elevates the worst among us. The ones who will claw their way to the top under this system are the most ruthless and sociopathic members of our society who are willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead. They then use all their power to advance their own interests and manifest their own vision of how they think the world ought to be, which is always going to be horrible and detrimental to our species because they are horrible people. When you create a system where sociopathy is rewarded with wealth and where wealth equals power, you're naturally going to find yourself being ruled by sociopaths. The sociopaths won't stop being in charge until we dismantle the system which turns them into royalty. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Hitler: 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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Zbigniew Brzezinski: Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: These propositions contradict the defeatist attitude of inactive pseudo-revolutionaries who take refuge in the pretext that against a professional army nothing can be done until all necessary conditions exist, but do not work to create them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: People must see clearly the futility of maintaining the fight for social goals within the framework of civil debate. When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: Who are the combatants in guerrilla warfare? On one side is a group composed of the oppressor and the army, well armed and disciplined, often receiving foreign help as well as help from the bureaucracy employed by the oppressor. On the other side are the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The guerrilla band is the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves. The guerrilla band is not inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in firepower. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
