Lenin: To be successful, insurrection must rely not upon conspiracy and not upon a party, but upon the advanced class... Insurrection must rely upon a revolutionary upsurge of the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3757
George Habash: Our real enemy is not Israel and Zionism only, it is American Imperialism, who is backing Israel because Israel is a bodyguard for American imperialist interests. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3758
Friedrich Engels: With Hegel, evil is the form in which the motive force of historical development presents itself. This contains the twofold meaning that, on the one hand, each new advance necessarily appears as a sacrilege against things hallowed, as a rebellion against condition, though old and moribund, yet sanctified by custom; and that, on the other hand, it is precisely the wicked passions of man — greed and lust for power — which, since the emergence of class antagonisms, serve as levers of historical development — a fact of which the history of feudalism and of the bourgeoisie, for example, constitutes a single continual proof. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3759
Mao Zedong: Both in the army and in the local organizations, inner-Party democracy is meant to strengthen discipline and increase combat effectiveness, not to weaken them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3760
Stalin: The October Revolution exposed the lie of the Social-Democrats that at the present time a peaceful transition to socialism is possible through bourgeois parliamentarism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3761
Mao Zedong: It was through the Russians that the Chinese found Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin, they did not even know of Marx and Engels. The salvoes of the October Revolution brought us Marxism-Leninism. The October Revolution helped progressives in China, as throughout the world, to adopt the proletarian world outlook as the instrument for studying a nation's destiny and considering anew their own problems. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3762
Vladimir Putin: Since the middle of the last century, when Nazism – the most malicious and aggressive ideology – was defeated through timely action, humanity was faced with the task of avoiding the revival of this evil and a recurrence of world wars. Despite all the zigzags and local skirmishes, the general vector was defined at that time. It was a total rejection of all forms of racism, the dismantling of the classical colonial system and the inclusion of a greater number of full-fledged participants in international politics... Our country, then called the Soviet Union, made a major contribution to consolidating these trends. The Soviet Union assisted states that had renounced colonial or neo-colonial dependence, whether in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East or Latin America. I would like to emphasise that in the mid-1980s, it was the Soviet Union that called for an end to ideological confrontation, the overcoming of the Cold War legacy, an end to the Cold War and its legacy, and the elimination of barriers that hampered global unity and comprehensive world development. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3763
Mao Zedong: The people's state protects the people. Only when the people have such a state can they educate and remold themselves by democratic methods on a country-wide scale, with everyone taking part, and shake off the influence of domestic and foreign reactionaries (which is still very strong, will survive for a long time and cannot be quickly destroyed), rid themselves of the bad habits and ideas acquired in the old society, not allow themselves to be led astray by the reactionaries, and continue to advance - to advance towards a socialist and communist society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3764
Eugene V. Debs: The red flag is the only race flag; it is the flag of revolt against robbery; the flag of the working class, the flag of hope and high resolve - the flag of Universal Freedom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3765
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Eugene V. Debs: The red flag, since time immemorial, has symbolized the discontent of the downtrodden, the revolt of the rabble. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3766
Karl Liebknecht: How long should the gamblers of imperialism abuse the patience of the people? Enough and more than enough slaughter! Down with the war instigators here and abroad! An end to genocide! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3767
Mao Zedong: In our country bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideology, anti-Marxist ideology will continue to exist for a long time. Basically, the socialist system has been established in our country. We have won the basic victory in transforming the ownership of the means of production, but we have not yet won complete victory on the political and ideological fronts. In the ideological field, the question of who will win in the struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie has not been really settled yet. We still have to wage a protracted struggle against bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideology. It is wrong not to understand this and to give up ideological struggle. All erroneous ideas, all poisonous weeds, all ghosts and monsters, must be subjected to criticism; in no circumstance should they be allowed to spread unchecked. However, the criticism should be fully reasoned, analytical and convincing, and not rough, bureaucratic, metaphysical or dogmatic. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3768
Mao Zedong: Both dogmatism and revisionism run counter to Marxism. Marxism must certainly advance; it must develop along with the development of practice and cannot stand still. It would become lifeless if it remained stagnant and stereotyped. However, the basic principles of Marxism must never be violated, or otherwise mistakes will be made. It is dogmatism to approach Marxism from a metaphysical point of view and to regard it as something rigid. It is revisionism to negate the basic principles of Marxism and to negate its universal truth. Revisionism is one form of bourgeois ideology. The revisionists deny the differences between socialism and capitalism, between the dictatorship of the proletariat and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. What they advocate is in fact not the socialist line but the capitalist line. In present circumstances, revisionism is more pernicious than dogmatism. One of our current important tasks on the ideological front is to unfold criticism of revisionism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3769
Mao Zedong: Revisionism, or Right opportunism, is a bourgeois trend of thought that is even more dangerous than dogmatism. The revisionists, the Right opportunists, pay lip service to Marxism; they too attack "dogmatism". However, what they are really attacking is the quintessence of Marxism. They oppose or distort materialism and dialectics, oppose or try to weaken the people's democratic dictatorship and the leading role of the Communist Party, and oppose or try to weaken socialist transformation and socialist construction. After the basic victory of the socialist revolution in our country, there are still a number of people who vainly hope to restore the capitalist system and fight the working class on every front, including the ideological one. Moreover, their right-hand men in this struggle are the revisionists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3770
Mao Zedong: In China, although in the main socialist transformation has been completed with respect to the system of ownership, and although the large-scale and turbulent class struggles of the masses characteristic of the previous revolutionary periods have in the main come to an end, there are still remnants of the overthrown landlord and comprador classes, there is still a bourgeoisie, and the remolding of the petty bourgeoisie has only just started. The class struggle is by no means over. The class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, the class struggle between the different political forces, and the class struggle in the ideological held between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie will continue to be long and tortuous and at times will even become very acute. The proletariat seeks to transform the world according to its own world outlook, and so does the bourgeoisie. In this respect, the question of which will win out, socialism or capitalism, is still not really settled. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3771
Mao Zedong: It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3772
Mark Twain: There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3773
Frank Zappa: This should not be seen as a matter only affecting women's rights, the matter of choice is something basic to be an American, when someone is anti-choice they are anti-American. It should be clear from recent events that the enemy America must face is not the Communists over there. It is those deranged right-wing lunatics right here In America. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3774
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Carl Sagan: There are naïve questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3775
Dear Abby: There is no such thing as a stupid question if it's sincere. Better to ask and risk appearing stupid than to continue on your ignorant way and make a stupid mistake. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3776
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Jerry Weissman: There is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3777
South Park: Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3778
Jonathan V. Last: A journalistic institution exists to serve its audience by giving them the clearest possible understanding of reality. The first duty of a journalistic institution is not to be “fair” to the politicians it covers. It is to make certain that its audience is presented an accurate view of reality. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3779
Mao Zedong: In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3780
Mao Zedong: Revolutionary culture is a powerful revolutionary weapon for the broad masses of the people. It prepares the ground ideologically before the revolution comes and is an important, indeed essential, fighting front in the general revolutionary front during the revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3781
Mao Zedong: All our literature and art are for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers; they are created for the workers, peasants and soldiers and are for their use. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3782
Mao Zedong: Our literary and art workers must accomplish this task and shift their stand; they must gradually move their feet over to the side of the workers, peasants and soldiers, to the side of the proletariat, through the process of going into their very midst and into the thick of practical struggles and through the process of studying Marxism and society. Only in this way can we have a literature and art that are truly for the workers, peasants and soldiers, a truly proletarian literature and art. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3783
Bible: Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3784
Aaron Bushnell: I've realized that a lot of the difference between me and my less radical friends is that they are less capable of imagining a better world than I am. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3785
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Mao Zedong: Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. This is particularly true at a time when the social and economic system is undergoing fundamental change. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3786
Mao Zedong: Ideological education is the key link to be grasped in uniting the whole Party for great political struggles. Unless this is done, the Party cannot accomplish any of its political tasks. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3787
Mao Zedong: What really counts in the world is conscientiousness, and the Communist Party is most particular about being conscientious. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3788
Chuang Tzu: How shall I talk of the sea to the frog If it has never left its pond? How shall I talk of the frost to the bird of the Summerland If it has never left the land of its birth How shall I talk of life with the sage If he is prisoner of his doctrine? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3789
Lenin: Less bombastic phrases and more simple, everyday work; less political word chatter and more attention to the simplest but living facts of construction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3790