Michael Parenti: Sleeping in a doorway is oppression. Want to know what oppression is? Then sleep in the doorways of the land of the free and the home of the brave and you’ll know what oppression is. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gustave Le Bon: The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nicola Bombacci: Overcome the Nation without destroying it, we want it bigger, because we want a government of workers and farmers, socialist, without denying the Homeland, an incontestable and sacred right of every man and every group of men. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn't even know where north or south is. If you don't eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you're lost in a forest, not knowing anything. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: These strikes, at first skirmishes, sometimes result in weighty struggles; they decide nothing, it is true, but they are the strongest proof that the decisive battle between bourgeoisie and proletariat is approaching. They are the military school of the working-men in which they prepare themselves for the great struggle which cannot be avoided; they are the pronunciamentos of single branches of industry that these too have joined the labour movement. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Being a school of communism in general, the trade unions must, in particular, be a school for training the whole mass of workers, and eventually all working people, in the art of managing socialist industry (and gradually also agriculture). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
