Otto von Bismarck: I know many armies that have gone to Russia. But I know none that have ever returned. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4556
Henry A. Wallace: We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4557
Henry A. Wallace: The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4558
Henry A. Wallace: They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4559
Henry A. Wallace: Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4560
Henry A. Wallace: If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4561
Henry A. Wallace: The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4562
Henry A. Wallace: In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4563
Henry A. Wallace: The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4564
Henry A. Wallace: Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4565
Karl Marx: We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4566
Friedrich Engels: Communism now no longer meant the concoction, by means of the imagination, of an ideal society as perfect as possible, but insight into the nature, the conditions and the consequent general aims of the struggle waged by the proletariat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4567
Friedrich Engels: The economic facts, which have so far played no role or only a contemptible one in the writing of history, are, at least in the modern world, a decisive historical force; that they form the basis of the origination of the present-day class antagonisms; that these class antagonisms, in the countries where they have become fully developed, thanks to large-scale industry, hence especially in England, are in their turn the basis of the formation of political parties and of party struggles, and thus of all political history. Marx had not only arrived at the same view, but had already, in the Deutsche-Französische Jahrbücher (1844), generalized it to the effect that, speaking generally, it is not the state which conditions and regulates the civil society at all, but civil society which conditions and regulates the state, and, consequently, that policy and its history are to be explained from the economic relations and their development, and not vice versa. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4568
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Friedrich Engels: It was Marx who had first discovered the great law of motion of history, the law according to which all historical struggles, whether they proceed in the political, religious, philosophical or some other ideological domain, are in fact only the more or less clear expression of struggles of social classes, and that the existence and thereby the collisions, too, between these classes are in turn conditioned by the degree of development of their economic position, by the mode of their production and of their exchange determined by it. This law, which has the same significance for history as the law of the transformation of energy has for natural science. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4569
Karl Marx: Every individual capital forms, however, but an individualised fraction, a fraction endowed with individual life, as it were, of the aggregate social capital, just as every individual capitalist is but an individual element of the capitalist class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4570
Friedrich Engels: It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not solely nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4571
Karl Marx: I do not proceed from “concepts,” hence neither from the “concept of value,” and am therefore in no way concerned to “divide” it. What I proceed from is the simplest social form in which the product of labour presents itself in contemporary society, and this is the “commodity.” This I analyse, initially in the form in which it appears. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4572
Friedrich Engels: Not only can we manage very well without the interference of the capitalist class in the great industries of the country, but that their interference is becoming more and more a nuisance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4573
Karl Marx: To save the Russian commune, a Russian revolution is needed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4574
Friedrich Engels: Dialectics constitutes the most important form of thinking for present-day natural science, for it alone offers the analogue for, and thereby the method of explaining, the evolutionary processes occurring in nature, inter-connections in general, and transitions from one field of investigation to another. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4575
Friedrich Engels: The principles are not the starting-point of the investigation, but its final result; they are not applied to nature and human history, but abstracted from them, it is not nature and the realm of man which conform to these principles, but the principles are only valid in so far as they are in conformity with nature and history. That is the only materialist conception of the matter. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4576
Friedrich Engels: All past history was the history of class struggles; that these warring classes of society are always the products of the modes of production and of exchange. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4577
Karl Marx: The whole Darwinian theory of the struggle for existence is simply the transference from society to animate nature of Hobbes’ theory of the war of every man against every man and the bourgeois economic theory of competition, along with the Malthusian theory of population. This feat having been accomplished – (as indicated under (1) I dispute its unqualified justification, especially where the Malthusian theory is concerned) – the same theories are next transferred back again from organic nature to history and their validity as eternal laws of human society declared to have been proved. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4578
Karl Marx: Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4579
Karl Marx: It is altogether self-evident that, to be able to fight at all, the working class must organize itself at home as a class and that its own country is the immediate arena of its struggle — insofar as its class struggle is national, not in substance, but, as the Communist Manifesto says, ‘in form’. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4580
Karl Marx: Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included). https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4581
Karl Marx: A rise in the price of labour, as a consequence of accumulation of capital, only means, in fact, that the length and weight of the golden chain the wage-worker has already forged for himself, allow of a relaxation of the tension of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4582
Yasser Arafat: As to those who fight against the just causes, those who wage war to occupy, colonize and oppress other people, those are the terrorists. Those are the people whose actions should be condemned, who should be called war criminals: for the justice of the cause determines the right to struggle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4583
Karl Marx: The price or money-form of commodities is, like their form of value generally, a form quite distinct from their palpable bodily form; it is, therefore, a purely ideal or mental form. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4584
Karl Marx: The March revolution in Prussia should not be confused either with the English revolution of 1648 or with the French one of 1789. In 1648 the bourgeoisie was allied with the modern aristocracy against the monarchy, the feudal aristocracy and the established church. In 1789 the bourgeoisie was allied with the people against the monarchy, the aristocracy and the established church. The model for the revolution of 1789 (at least in Europe) was only the revolution of 1648; that for the revolution of 1648 only the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain. (128) Both revolutions were a century ahead of their model not only in time but also in substance. In both revolutions the bourgeoisie was the class that really headed the movement. The proletariat and the non-bourgeois strata of the middle class had either not yet evolved interests which were different from those of the bourgeoisie or they did not yet constitute independent classes or class divisions. Therefore, where they opposed the bourgeoisie, as they did in France in 1793 and 1794, they fought only for the attainment of the aims of the bourgeoisie, albeit in a non-bourgeois manner. The entire French terrorism was just a plebeian way of dealing with the enemies of the bourgeoisie, absolutism, feudalism and philistinism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4585
Karl Marx: The revolutions of 1648 and 1789 were not English and French revolutions, they were revolutions in the European fashion. They did not represent the victory of a particular social class over the old political system; they proclaimed the political system of the new European society. The bourgeoisie was victorious in these revolutions, but the victory of the bourgeoisie was at that time the victory of a new social order, the victory of bourgeois ownership over feudal ownership, of nationality over provincialism, of competition over the guild, of partitioning (of the land) over primogeniture, of the rule of the landowner over the domination of the owner by the land, of enlightenment over superstition, of the family over the family name, of industry over heroic idleness, of bourgeois law over medieval privileges. The revolution of 1648 was the victory of the seventeenth century over the sixteenth century; the revolution of 1789 was the victory of the eighteenth century over the seventeenth. These revolutions reflected the needs of the world at that time rather than the needs of those parts of the world where they occurred, that is, England and France. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4586
Kwame Ture: The reason the liberal seeks to stop confrontation — and this is the second pitfall of liberalism is that his role of regardless of what he says is really to maintain the status quo rather than to change it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4587
Primo Levi: Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4588
Primo Levi: Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4589
Primo Levi: We cannot understand (Fascism), but we can and must understand from where it springs, and we must be on our guard...because what happened can happen again...For this reason, it is everyone's duty to reflect on what happened. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4590
Primo Levi: To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4591
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Wealth among traditional people is measured by having enough to give away. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4592
Hugo Chávez: Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize almost on the same day he sent 30,000 soldiers to kill innocent people in Afghanistan... But the USA has the little machine that prints dollars. And they have saved the banks and the capitalist system. Well, so they think. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4593
Karl Marx: The proletariat created by the breaking up of the bands of feudal retainers and by the forcible expropriation of the people from the soil, this “free” proletariat could not possibly be absorbed by the nascent manufactures as fast as it was thrown upon the world. On the other hand, these men, suddenly dragged from their wonted mode of life, could not as suddenly adapt themselves to the discipline of their new condition. They were turned en masse into beggars, robbers, vagabonds, partly from inclination, in most cases from stress of circumstances. Hence at the end of the 15th and during the whole of the 16th century, throughout Western Europe a bloody legislation against vagabondage. The fathers of the present working class were chastised for their enforced transformation into vagabonds and paupers. Legislation treated them as “voluntary” criminals, and assumed that it depended on their own good will to go on working under the old conditions that no longer existed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4594