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Lenin: You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5548


Bible: And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5549


Bible: You are my son; today I have become your father. Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5550


Karl Marx: No social order ever perishes before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have developed; and new, higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society itself. Therefore mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, it will always be found that the tasks itself arises only when the material conditions of its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5551


Karl Marx: In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5552



Karl Marx: At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or — what is but a legal expression for the same thing — with the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so can we not judge of such a period of transformation by its own consciousness; on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained rather from the contradictions of material life, from the existing conflict between the social productive forces and the relations of production. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5553


Karl Marx: The bourgeois relations of production are the last antagonistic form of the social process of production — antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonisms, but of one arising from the social conditions of life of the individuals; at the same time the productive forces developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for the solution of that antagonism. This social formation brings, therefore, the prehistory of society to a close. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5554


Anton Chekhov: There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue; my heart aches from the consciousness that I am working for money, and money is the centre of all I do. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5555


Enver Hoxha: (T)he defence of the theory and practice of scientific socialism from the attacks and distortions of modern revisionists of various hues and tints and other bourgeois and petty-bourgeois trends is one of the most important tasks in the ideological struggle today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5556



Augusto Pinochet: The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5557


Enver Hoxha: The counter-revolutionary theories and practices of the revisionists serve as nourishment for the most diverse hostile ideological trends, ranging from the most reactionary bourgeois trends to the Trotskyite and petty-bourgeois ones. The bourgeois ideologists deliberately try to present the (Khrushchevite) revisionist betrayal as a failure of socialism and Marxism-Leninism, as if communism is unable to provide a positive alternative for the solution of the problems of the world today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5558


Enver Hoxha: There are … some petty-bourgeois ideologists and people of sincere revolutionary inclinations who, disillusioned by the (Khrushchevite) revisionist betrayal, are questioning the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism and trying to create new theories or to revive old ones. They preach that Marxism-Leninism is incomplete and inaccurate, that allegedly it no longer responds to the new historical conditions of various countries or continents. In this situation, when the ideological confusion which the modern revisionists caused and are seeking to keep alive has become more pronounced, the great importance of the struggle of all the Marxist-Leninists for the liberation of the working class and labouring masses from all the influences of bourgeois and revisionist ideology and of the various petty-bourgeois trends, the arming of them with the only scientific ideology, Marxism-Leninism, emerges very clearly. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5559


Enver Hoxha: Rigid and sectarian attitudes also damage the line of the Party. In the recent times such attitudes have been apparent among some communists and cadres who, when the Party exposed and condemned elements with a liberal, opportunist and hostile spirit, began to look with undue suspicion even at some small and unimportant blemish. The tendencies observed sometimes in some people to resort to administrative methods where persuasion and education should be used are also sectarian. Those who display sectarian tendencies often pose as “consistent and principled revolutionaries”. But in fact they are opportunists and act in this way in order to be “on the safe side”. These opportunist vacillations stem from lack of a correct grasp of the nature of the two types of contradictions which exist in our society, from confusing antagonistic with non-antagonistic contradictions. The Party must make these matters completely clear and explain that opportunism cannot be fought with success if sectarianism is not fought at the same time, and vice-versa. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5560


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5561





Big Bill Haywood: If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5564


Augusto Pinochet: If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5565







Mao Zedong: Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now; we cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. Our present task is to strengthen the people's state apparatus -- mainly the people's army, the people's police and the people's courts -- in order to consolidate national defence and protect the people's interests. Given this condition, China can develop steadily, under the leadership of the working class and the Communist Party, from an agricultural into an industrial country and from a new-democratic into a socialist and communist society, can abolish classes and realize the Great Harmony. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5570



Saramago: We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn’t discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God’s place, who is also not discussed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5572


Saramago: We’re not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5573


Saramago: We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world... https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5574


Saramago: From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don’t discuss that. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5575




Saramago: Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5577



Saramago: Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5579



Saramago: The problem is that the right doesn’t need any ideas to govern, but the left can’t govern without ideas. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5581