Enver Hoxha: In genuine socialist society, in which the common property is managed by the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat, with the broad, organised and effective participation of the working class and the other working masses, according to the principle of democratic centralism, and in which great differences in the distribution of the social product, which lead to the creation of privileged strata, are not permitted, the worker is not a wage-slave and is not exploited. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6033
Friedrich Engels: Fifthly, there is absolutely no mention of the organization of the working class as a class through the medium of trade unions. And that is a point of the utmost importance, this being the proletariat’s true class organization in which it fights its daily battles with capital, in which it trains itself and which nowadays can no longer simply be smashed, even with reaction at its worst (as presently in Paris). https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6034
Kim Jong-Un: The masses are masters of their own destiny and they are responsible for implementing the cause of independence, but only under correct leadership of a revolutionary party can they become a genuine motive force of the revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6036
Proudhon: Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6038
Issac Asimov: He (Orwell) wasn’t much affected, apparently, by the Nazi brand of totalitarianism, for there was no room within him except for his private war with Stalinist communism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6040
Karl Marx: In the meantime, may I wish you in advance every happiness for the New Year. If it’s anything like the old one, I, for my part, would sooner consign it to the devil. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6042
John Pilger: Spartacus was the rebellious leader of Rome’s slaves in 71-73 BC. There is a thrilling moment in the Kirk Douglas movie Spartacus when the Romans call on Spartacus’s men to identify their leader and so be pardoned. Instead hundreds of his comrades stand and raise their fists in solidarity and shout, ‘I am Spartacus!’ The rebellion is under way. Julian and David are Spartacus. The Palestinians are Spartacus. People who fill the streets with flags and principle and solidarity are Spartacus. We are all Spartacus if we want to be. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6043
