Mao Zedong: At one stage, it is necessary to copy from foreign countries. After a period of imitation, there should be no more copying. Students learn by copying their teachers in school, but after graduating, they become teachers themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2724
Kim Jong-Il: Totalitarianism served as the political idea of fascist dictators. Notorious Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy used totalitarianism as an ideological tool to justify their fascist dictatorship. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2728
Lenin: The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2731
Mussolini: Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual. And if liberty is to be the attribute of the real man, and not of that abstract puppet envisaged by individualistic Liberalism, Fascism is for liberty. And for the only liberty which can be a real thing, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State. Therefore, for the Fascist, everything is in the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2742
Karl Marx: In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2743
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
