Michael Parenti: The overthrow of communism gave a green light to the unbridled exploitative impulses of Western corporate interests. No longer needing to convince workers that they live better than their counterparts in Russia, and no longer constrained by a competing system, the corporate class is rolling back the many gains that working people in the West have won over the years. Now that the free market, in its meanest form, is emerging triumphant in the East, so will it prevail in the West. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9537
Michael Parenti: So it is the heart of us policy, ladies and gentlemen, to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9538
Friedrich Engels: By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour. By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9539
Michael Parenti: Once you frighten the American public, once you demonize the leaders of these countries, then you have license to bomb their people and bomb their infrastructure and destroy their countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9540
Lenin: We say nothing of the fact that bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and "radical" words. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9541
