Nexhmije Hoxha: The socialist state remains the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat until communism. The “theories” of the Titoites about the “withering away of the state” already, as well as the “theories” of the Khrushchevite revisionists about “the state of the entire people”, are nothing but “theories” of the dying out of the class struggle, of the rejection of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin stressed that in order to go on to communism the dictatorship of the proletariat must be strengthened and not weakened. Our Party of Labour has always followed these immortal teachings. The dictatorship of the proletariat is the most powerful weapon of the class struggle in the hands of the working class and its party. To wage the class struggle correctly, it is important not only to accept that the socialist state, even after the elimination of the exploiting classes, for the entire period of transition to communism, remains the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also to define the functions of this state for the entire period correctly, on a class basis. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2669
Henri Frederic Amiel: He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2675
David Graeber: All capitalists want capitalism for the masses and socialism for the super rich elites. That's kind of the definition of capitalism in my honest opinion. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2679
Lenin: For every hundred mistakes we commit, and which the bourgeoisie and their lackeys (including our own Mensheviks and Right Socialist-Revolutionaries) shout about to the whole world, 10,000 great and heroic deeds are performed, greater and more heroic because they are simple and inconspicuous amidst the everyday life of a factory district or a remote village, performed by people who are not accustomed (and have no opportunity) to shout to the whole world about their successes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2681
Rosa Luxemburg: Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2682
Friedrich Engels: Here in London the Fabians are a bunch of careerists who have sense enough to recognize the inevitability of a social upheaval but are quite incapable of entrusting this gigantic task solely to the untutored proletariat and are therefore accustomed to take the lead; fear of revolution is their guiding principle. They are the ‘heddicated’ par excellence. Their socialism is municipal socialism; it is the commune not the nation, which, at any rate to start off with, is to be the owner of the means of production. They then proceed to propound this, their socialism, as the extreme but inevitable consequence of bourgeois liberalism—hence their tactics of not directly confronting the Liberals as opponents but of inducing them to draw socialist conclusions, ergo they cheat them in order to PERMEATE LIBERALISM WITH SOCIALISM and do not put up socialist candidates against the Liberals, but rather foist the former on them by force if not by false pretenses. That in so doing they are either betraying and hoodwinking themselves, or else are hoodwinking socialism, they do not, of course, realize. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2686
Lenin: By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2689
Lenin: 1) Things exist independently of our consciousness, independently of our perceptions, outside of us, for it is beyond doubt that alizarin existed in coal tar yesterday and it is equally beyond doubt that yesterday we knew nothing of the existence of this alizarin and received no sensations from it. 2) There is definitely no difference in principle between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself, and there can be no such difference. The only difference is between what is known and what is not yet known. And philosophical inventions of specific boundaries between the one and the other, inventions to the effect that the thing-in-itself is "beyond" phenomena (Kant), or that we can and must fence ourselves off by some philosophical partition from the problem of a world which in one part or another is still unknown but which exists outside us (Hume)-all this is the sheerest nonsense, Schrulle, crotchet, invention. 3) In the theory of knowledge, as in every other branch of science, we must think dialectically, that is, we must not regard our knowledge as ready-made and unalterable, but must determine how knowledge emerges from ignorance, how incomplete, inexact knowledge becomes more complete and more exact. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2690
Karl Marx: The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2693
Bill Shankly: The socialism I believe in is everybody working for each other and having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2701
