Mao Zedong: The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3612
Mao Zedong: The masses have boundless creative power. They can organize themselves and concentrate on places and branches of work where they can give full play to their energy; they can concentrate on production in breadth and depth and create more and more undertakings for their own well-being. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3613
Mao Zedong: Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership - such is the basic method of leadership. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3614
Mao Zedong: In all the practical work of our Party, all correct leadership is necessarily "from the masses, to the masses". This means: take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3615
Mao Zedong: We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3618
Stalin: Without the struggle of genuine communists like Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Soviet Union would not have been able to continue socialist construction in the peaceful environment it enjoys today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3620
Kim Jong-Il: With the establishment of the socialist system, the privileged class disappears. As long as the people hold state power and the means of production, this class cannot reappear in socialist society. However, if a struggle is not waged against the abuse of power, bureaucracy, irregularities, and corruption in this society, some poorly prepared officials may ideologically deteriorate and, separating themselves from the masses, become a distinct stratum. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3621
Kim Il Sung: To highly appreciate the achievements made by Lenin and Stalin, as well as to fight for the victory of the socialist and communist cause, is an important duty that falls upon communists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3622
Kim Jong-Il: Lenin was the first to organize and lead a proletarian revolution to victory in the world, and by generalizing the experiences gained from it, he developed Marxism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3623
İbrahim Kaypakkaya: It is a communist leadership, which the masses strongly demand, which will turn the struggle into a triumphant people's revolution, which will save the struggle of the masses from being a lever that sometimes brings one of the reactionary cliques to power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3624
Mao Zedong: The People's democratic dictatorship uses two methods. Towards the enemy, it uses the method of dictatorship, that is, for as long a period of time as is necessary it does not let them take part in political activities and compels them to obey the law of the People's Government and to engage in labour and, through labour, transform themselves into new men. Towards the people, on the contrary, it uses the method not of compulsion but of democracy, that is, it must necessarily let them take part in political activities and does not compel them to do this or that, but uses the method of democracy in educating and persuading them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3628
Mao Zedong: The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3629
Mao Zedong: Our state is a people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. What is this dictatorship for? Its first function is to suppress the reactionary classes and elements and those exploiters in our country who resist the socialist revolution, to suppress those who try to wreck our socialist construction, or in other words, to resolve the internal contradictions between ourselves and the enemy. For instance, to arrest, try and sentence certain counterrevolutionaries, and to deprive landlords and bureaucrat-capitalists of their right to vote and their freedom of speech for a specified period of time - all this comes within the scope of our dictatorship. To maintain public order and safeguard the interests of the people, it is likewise necessary to exercise dictatorship over embezzlers, swindlers, arsonists, murderers, criminal gangs and other scoundrels who seriously disrupt public order. The second function of this dictatorship is to protect our country from subversion and possible aggression by external enemies. In that event, it is the task of this dictatorship to resolve the external contradiction between the enemy and us. The aim of this dictatorship is to protect all our people so that they can devote themselves to peaceful labour and build China into a socialist country with a modern industry, agriculture, science and culture. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3630
Mao Zedong: Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3631
Friedrich Engels: When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live—forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence—knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3634
Frank Zappa: The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3637
Lenin: In order to 'serve' the mass movement we must have people who will devote themselves exclusively to (revolutionary) activities, and that such people must train themselves patiently and steadfastly to be professional revolutionaries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3638
Henry Winston: Leninism, the Marxism of the imperialist epoch, is THE ideological weapon of the working class. It is the scientific guide that enables the working class to combine its struggle with national liberation movements against imperialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3642
Walter Rodney: To complete the moral of the Rockefeller success story, it would be necessary to fill in the details on all the millions of people who had to be exploited in order for one man to become a multimillionaire. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3643
Winston Churchill: Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending. You are a small exclamation mark at the end of a very long and insignificant sentence in the book of history. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3644
