Michael Parenti: Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2745
Michael Parenti: Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2746
Eric Cantona: To stop fascism, don’t stay silent, take action. History is repeating itself, but it seems we don’t care. Just look at how the far right is growing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2748
Enver Hoxha: Our army is a political army, not an apolitical one. It is educated by the Party with Marxist-Leninist ideology, with the principles of the Party's policy, with the principles of proletarian morality, with the laws of the revolution, with modern revolutionary military art and with the sentiments of proletarian internationalism. Only such an army, inspired and comprehensively educated, is loyal to the people and Party. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2753
Karl Marx: Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2755
Karl Marx: As the national debt finds its support in the public revenue, which must cover the yearly payments for interest, &c., the modern system of taxation was the necessary complement of the system of national loans. The loans enable the government to meet extraordinary expenses, without the tax-payers feeling it immediately, but they necessitate, as a consequence, increased taxes. On the other hand, the raising of taxation caused by the accumulation of debts contracted one after another, compels the government always to have recourse to new loans for new extraordinary expenses. Modern fiscality, whose pivot is formed by taxes on the most necessary means of subsistence (thereby increasing their price), thus contains within itself the germ of automatic progression. Overtaxation is not an incident, but rather a principle. In Holland, therefore, where this system was first inaugurated, the great patriot, DeWitt, has in his “Maxims” extolled it as the best system for making the wage labourer submissive, frugal, industrious, and overburdened with labour. The great part that the public debt, and the fiscal system corresponding with it, has played in the capitalisation of wealth and the expropriation of the masses, has led many writers, like Cobbett, Doubleday and others, to seek in this, incorrectly, the fundamental cause of the misery of the modern peoples. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2757
Karl Marx: In medieval society, therefore, taxes were the only bond between the emerging bourgeois society and the ruling feudal state, a bond which compelled the state to make concessions to bourgeois society, to meet its needs and adjust itself to its growth. In modern states this right to grant and refuse taxes has been turned by bourgeois society into a means of controlling the government, the body administering its common interests. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2758
Margaret Thatcher: In the Falklands we had to fight the enemy without. Here the enemy is within - and it’s much more difficult to fight but just as dangerous to liberty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2759
Aldous Huxley: By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2761
Georgy Zhukov: I often thought about the nature of the Banderites' hatred of the Russians, until I came across the following expression: hatred is a coward's revenge for the fear he experienced! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2773
