Mao Zedong: Commodity production is not an isolated thing. Look at the context: capitalism or socialism. In a capitalist context it is capitalist commodity production. In a socialist context it is socialist commodity production. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Erich Honecker: Nevertheless, at the end of my life I have the certainty that the GDR was not founded in vain. She sent a signal that socialism can be possible and better than capitalism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: The state is nothing but the organised collective power of the possessing classes, the landowners and the capitalists as against the exploited classes, the peasants and the workers. What the individual capitalists do not want, their state also does not want. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gramsci: The most important observation about any concrete analysis of the relations of force is that such analyses cannot and must not be ends in themselves, but acquire significance only if they serve to justify a particular practical activity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Globalization was enclosed in the straitjacket of neoliberalism, and as such tends to globalize not development, but poverty; not respect for the national sovereignty of our States, but its violation; not solidarity among peoples, but "every man for himself" in the midst of unequal competition in the market. Two decades of the so-called neoliberal structural adjustment have left a balance of economic failure and social disaster... It is time for the Third World to energetically demand the demolition of an organization (the IMF) that does not offer stability to the world economy and functions not to deliver preventive funds to debtors to avoid liquidity crises, but to protect and rescue creditors. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Maurice Bishop: Has Reagan ever been interested in elections and democracy? When did Reagan ever call on Haiti to hold elections? When did Reagan ever call on the butcher Pinochet in Chile or on South Korea to hold elections? Is he calling upon racist South Africa to hold elections? No! Even when Allende in Chile had in fact won power through elections what did the American President - Nixon at the time do? Nixon, Kissinger and Helms sat down the night after Allende won the elections in September 1970 and they worked out their plan of aggression and destabilisation against President Allende. Allende didn't say no more elections. He didn't arm working people to try to close down the reactionary paper El Mercurio as he should have done. Allende relied on the parliamentary form that they wanted him to rely on. But because he was a socialist and was independent and was bringing benefits and justice to his people, the American elite went out of their way to crush him ruthlessly. And the criminal they put into power has yet to be told by the so-called democratic United States to call an el... Show more...
Maurice Bishop: Has Reagan ever been interested in elections and democracy? When did Reagan ever call on Haiti to hold elections? When did Reagan ever call on the butcher Pinochet in Chile or on South Korea to hold elections? Is he calling upon racist South Africa to hold elections? No! Even when Allende in Chile had in fact won power through elections what did the American President - Nixon at the time do? Nixon, Kissinger and Helms sat down the night after Allende won the elections in September 1970 and they worked out their plan of aggression and destabilisation against President Allende. Allende didn't say no more elections. He didn't arm working people to try to close down the reactionary paper El Mercurio as he should have done. Allende relied on the parliamentary form that they wanted him to rely on. But because he was a socialist and was independent and was bringing benefits and justice to his people, the American elite went out of their way to crush him ruthlessly. And the criminal they put into power has yet to be told by the so-called democratic United States to call an election. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Theodore Dreiser: Belief in the greatness and dignity of Man has been the guiding principle of my life and work. The logic of my life and work leads me therefore to apply for membership in the Community Party. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-Il: It has already been established by materialistic dialectic that the world consists of material, not consciousness or ideas, and that it moves, changes the Juche philosophy answered a new question—who is the master of the world and what is the motive force for its transformation. It elucidated a new idea of the world that nature and society are dominated and transformed by man, and thus fulfilled brilliantly the philosophical task of our time when the popular masses are masters of their own destiny and history. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Communist morality is that which serves struggle and unites the working people against all exploitation, against all petty private property; for petty property puts into the hands of one person that which has been created by the labour of the whole of society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The guerrilla is a social reformer, he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: In the United States of America, in Britain, as also in France, there are aggressive forces thirsting for a new war. They need war to obtain super-profits, to plunder other countries. They are billionaires and millionaires who regard war as a lucrative item yielding colossal profits. They, these aggressive forces, hold reactionary governments in their hands and direct them. But they are at the same time afraid of their peoples, who do not want a new war and stand for the preservation of peace. Therefore they try to use reactionary governments in order to entangle their peoples with lies, to deceive them and to portray the new war as defensive and the peaceful policy of the peace-loving countries as aggressive. They are trying to deceive their peoples in order to impose their aggressive plans on them and to draw them into a new war... Peace will be preserved and consolidated if the peoples take the cause of peace into their own hands and defend it to the end. War may become inevitable if the warmongers succeed in entangling the masses of the people in lies, in deceiving them a... Show more...
Stalin: In the United States of America, in Britain, as also in France, there are aggressive forces thirsting for a new war. They need war to obtain super-profits, to plunder other countries. They are billionaires and millionaires who regard war as a lucrative item yielding colossal profits. They, these aggressive forces, hold reactionary governments in their hands and direct them. But they are at the same time afraid of their peoples, who do not want a new war and stand for the preservation of peace. Therefore they try to use reactionary governments in order to entangle their peoples with lies, to deceive them and to portray the new war as defensive and the peaceful policy of the peace-loving countries as aggressive. They are trying to deceive their peoples in order to impose their aggressive plans on them and to draw them into a new war... Peace will be preserved and consolidated if the peoples take the cause of peace into their own hands and defend it to the end. War may become inevitable if the warmongers succeed in entangling the masses of the people in lies, in deceiving them and drawing them into a new world war. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: In the US, which talks so much about multiparty systems, there are two parties so exactly alike in methods, objectives and purposes, that in practice they have come to create the most complete one-party system in the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gabor Maté: Capitalism makes us physically and mentally unwell. Decisions that affect peoples lives are made, not for their own benefit, but for the purpose of profit. And they are made by very few people under the guise of what’s called a free society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-Il: Young people are the precious flowers of a country and nation, the most vigorous of the social forces and the masters of the future. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Maxim Gorky: Why, for whose sake was the extermination of working people by working people required? For the sake of the score or so thousand of very wealthy and utterly irresponsible people who “rule the world,” that is, who live on the labour of others, on the blood of others, and who infect the working people with the diseases of greed, envy and enmity, as lice infect with typhus. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harriet Tubman: If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: "We do not worship the golden calf!" We do not want the kingdom of the bourgeoisie and the oppressors! Damnation and death to capitalism and its horrors of poverty and bloodshed! Long live the kingdom of labour, long live socialism! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: Socialism is not merely a political doctrine, it is a way of life, an attitude of the mind and heart towards man and society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: If the Party is to lead millions, it must be in close contact with these millions, is must be able to comprehend the life, the sorrows, and aspirations of the masses. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: In my opinion, Irish patriots are writing one of the most heroic chapters in human history. They have earned the respect and admiration of the world, and likewise they deserve its support. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: They [Social-Democrats] are just as much traitors to socialism... They represent that top section of workers who have been bribed by the bourgeoisie... for in all the civilised, advanced countries the bourgeoisie rob-either by colonial oppression or by financially extracting 'gain' from formally independent weak countries-they rob a population many times larger than that of 'their own' country. This is the economic factor that enables the imperialist bourgeoisie to obtain superprofits, part of which is used to bribe the top section of the proletariat and convert it into a reformist, opportunist petty bourgeoisie that fears revolution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gustave Le Bon: Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The guns should be directed, not against our brothers, the wage slaves of other countries, but against the reactionary and bourgeois governments and parties of all countries. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
