Mao Zedong: It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3603
Fidel Castro: Within the Revolution, everything; against the Revolution, nothing. Because the Revolution has its rights too, and the first right of the Revolution is the right to exist. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3604
Mao Zedong: For us defeatism is a crime and to strive for victory in the War of Resistance is an inescapable duty. For only by fighting in defense of the motherland can we defeat the aggressors and achieve national liberation. And only by achieving national liberation will it be possible for the proletariat and other working people to achieve their own emancipation. The victory of China and the defeat of the invading imperialists will help the people of other countries. Thus in wars of national liberation patriotism is applied internationalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3607
Mao Zedong: In the fight for complete liberation the oppressed people rely first of all on their own struggle and then, and only then, on international assistance. The people who have triumphed in their own revolution should help those still struggling for liberation. This is our internationalist duty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3608
Mao Zedong: The socialist countries are states of an entirely new type in which the exploiting classes have been overthrown and the working people are in power. The principle of integrating internationalism with patriotism is practiced in the relations between these countries. Common interests and common ideals closely bind us. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3609
Mao Zedong: Our congress should call upon the whole Party to be vigilant and to see that no comrade at any post is divorced from the masses. It should teach every comrade to love the people and listen attentively to the voice of the masses; to identify himself with the masses wherever he goes and, instead of standing above them, to immerse himself among them; and, according to their present level, to awaken them or raise their political consciousness and help them gradually to organize themselves voluntarily and to set going all essential struggles permitted by the internal and external circumstances of the given time and place. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3610
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
