Aristotle: Men create gods after their own image, not only in regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Carl Sagan: The nature of life on Earth and the search for life elsewhere are two sides of the same question - the search for who we are. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is something that it has to acquire, even if it does not want to. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Soviet power is the union and constitution of the local Soviets into one common state organization, into the state organization of the proletariat as the vanguard of the oppressed and exploited masses and as the ruling class — their union in the Republic of the Soviets. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: However, not every political party claiming the leadership of the working class is capable of accomplishing this task. This is evident from the experience of the Social-Democratic Parties of the Second International. Acting through the opportunist leaders of Social-Democracy, the bourgeoisie was able to a considerable extent to bring these parties under its influence, to "tame" them and make them barely distinguishable from the usual bourgeois parliamentary opposition. As a result, the Social-Democratic Parties, which at first raised high hopes in the working class, lost their ability to organise and lead the revolutionary working-class movement. This was particularly evident when all the social contradictions engendered by the epoch of imperialism became extremely aggravated. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Woman and teenage children fought in the Paris Commune side by side with the men. It will be no different in the coming battles for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Upton Sinclair: 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.... Show more...
Upton Sinclair: 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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Upton Sinclair: 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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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Upton Sinclair: All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Barack Obama: You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing, that citizens no longer know what to believe... Once they lose trust in their leaders, mainstream media, in political institutions, in each other, the possibility of truth — the game’s won. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Socialism does not require idleness, but that all people work honestly, work not for others, not for the rich and exploiters, but for themselves, for society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bertrand Russell: The problem of producing synthetic food is purely chemical, and there is no reason to regard it as insoluble. No doubt natural foods will taste better, and rich men, at weddings and feasts, will provide real peas and beans, which will be mentioned by the newspapers with awe. But in the main food will be manufactured in vast chemical factories. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: One cannot live in society and be free from society. The freedom of the bourgeois writer, artist or actress is simply masked (or hypocritically masked) dependence on the money-bag, on corruption, on prostitution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bhagat Singh: Universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity of opportunity in the social, political and individual life. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kwame Ture: Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Marie Curie: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John Dewey: Democracy has little meaning when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, transportation, and communication, reinforced by command of the press, press agents and other means of publicity and propaganda. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Louis Pasteur: Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Clarence Darrow: You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Susan B. Anthony: I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Muammar Gaddafi: France assassinated the Honourable Leaders of our continent, the likes of Thomas Sankara etc & leaves behind Traitors for the masses. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
B. M. Boguslavsky: Today, when the Earth’s population is increasing at an ever faster rate, and is expected to mount, at the very least, to 6,000 million in the year 2000, bourgeois sociologists and economists are making much of the theory that the population grows in geometrical progression and the means of subsistence increase in arithmetical progression. Hence they view population growth as an eternal evil threatening innumerable calamities, such as famine, wars and so on. However, overpopulation is not a law of nature. It does not appear because there are too many people but is due to the conditions of production under capitalism. Capitalism constantly produces a_ surplus-population. Economic crises, chronic unemployment, destitution are not at all the effects of overpopulation, but are, indeed, its causes. Bourgeois overpopulation theories are wrong because their authors regard the conditions, which are merely produced by capitalism, as absolute and eternal. In reality, the growth of labour productivity, made especially rapid by the technological revolution, provides for a... Show more...
B. M. Boguslavsky: Today, when the Earth’s population is increasing at an ever faster rate, and is expected to mount, at the very least, to 6,000 million in the year 2000, bourgeois sociologists and economists are making much of the theory that the population grows in geometrical progression and the means of subsistence increase in arithmetical progression. Hence they view population growth as an eternal evil threatening innumerable calamities, such as famine, wars and so on. However, overpopulation is not a law of nature. It does not appear because there are too many people but is due to the conditions of production under capitalism. Capitalism constantly produces a_ surplus-population. Economic crises, chronic unemployment, destitution are not at all the effects of overpopulation, but are, indeed, its causes. Bourgeois overpopulation theories are wrong because their authors regard the conditions, which are merely produced by capitalism, as absolute and eternal. In reality, the growth of labour productivity, made especially rapid by the technological revolution, provides for an abundance of goods unthought of in the past. However, the progress of science and technology encounters obstacles created by capitalism, whose interests have long come in conflict with the interest of the working people, of the bulk of world population. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Liu Shaoqi: When several imperialist powers seek to plunder weaker nations of the world, the result is an imperialist world war for the redistribution of colonies. This crime, the most monstrous in world history, is committed by the bourgeoisie under the banner of 'nationalism'. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Pablo Picasso: Painting is not made to decorate houses, It is an instrument of offensive and defensive war against the enemy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation... Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Claudia Jones: I was deported from the USA because as a Negro woman, Communist of West Indian descent, I was a thorn in their side in my opposition to Jim Crow racist discrimination. I was deported because I urged the prosecution of lynchers rather than prosecution of Communists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. Having overthrown the bourgeoisie and conquered political power, the proletariat has become the ruling class; it wields state power, it exercis... Show more...
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. 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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: To confine Marxism to the theory of class struggle means curtailing Marxism, reducing it to something acceptable to the bourgeoisie. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-Un: The best methods of turning misfortunes into blessings and adversity into prosperity should be found in the simple opinions of the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
