Stalin: The fact that the main blows are directed against Stalin is explained by the fact that Stalin knows—perhaps better than some of our comrades— all the tricks of the opposition. He is not so easy to deceive, and so they direct their blows primarily against Stalin. Well then, let them curse all they want... Can we be surprised that Trotsky, who treated the great Lenin so disrespectfully—a man not even worthy of polishing Lenin’s boots—now slanders, without restraint, one of Lenin’s many disciples? I consider it a matter of honor that the opposition directs all its hatred against Stalin. That’s exactly how it should be. It would be strange and even insulting if the opposition, which is trying to destroy the Party, were to praise Stalin. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2895
Aristotle: It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poor, so that he may be able to afford the cost of his bodyguard, while the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2896
Karl Marx: Finally to say that “ the most favourable condition of wage-labour is the fastest possible growth of productive capital ” is the same as to say: the quicker the working class multiplies and augments the power inimical to it-the wealth of another which lords it over that class-the more favourable will be the conditions under which it will be permitted to toil anew at the multiplication of bourgeois wealth, at the enlargement of the power of capital, content thus to forge for itself the golden chains by which the bourgeoisie drags it in its train. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2898
Gramsci: I hate the indifferent. I believe that life means taking sides. One who is really alive, can be nothing if not citizen and partisan. Indifference is lethargy: it is parasitism, not life. Therefore, I hate the indifferent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2900
Kim Il Sung: If you are bitten by capitalist insects, capitalist germs will infiltrate ,if bitten by revisionist insects, revisionist germs will infiltrate will infiltrate ,and if bitten by flunkeyist insects ,flunkeyist germs will infiltrate. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2902
Joe Hill: Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2903
Kwame Ture: Most societies in the West are not opposed to violence. The oppressor is only opposed to violence when the oppressed talk about using violence against the oppressor. Then the question of violence is raised as the incorrect means to attain one's ends. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2904
Ho Chi Minh: Under the pretext of educating them, the Trotskyists organised the most backward elements of the army in small groups, then, profiting by the harsh conditions of life in the army, they encouraged them to desert with arms and ammunition. In liaison with the bandits, they created disorder behind the lines of the 8th army while it was in full combat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2906
Thomas Sankara: Our country produces enough to feed us all. Alas, for lack of organization, we are forced to beg for food aid. It’s this aid that instills in our spirits the attitude of beggars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2908
Ho Chi Minh: The Japanese Trotskyists lure youth into their league, then they denounce them to the police. They seek to penetrate the Japanese Communist Party with the aim of destroying it from within. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2911
Ho Chi Minh: Perhaps you have read the charges in the proceedings against the Trotskyists in the Soviet Union? If you have not read them, I advise you to read them and to get your friends to read them. This reading is very useful. It will help you to see the true repugnant face of Trotskyism and Trotskyists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2912
Ho Chi Minh: While the soldiers of the 19th army spill their blood to defend the Fatherland, the Trotskyists, in acts as in words, continue to commit crime upon crime. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2913
Ho Chi Minh: Trotskyists such as Hoa Van Khoi and Cung Van Thu, in secret liaison with the police and the Japanese bosses, infiltrated into the workers’ strike at Shanghai and employed all means to sabotage the movement. To the point where they managed to have the most talented activists in the strike arrested. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2914
Ho Chi Minh: The Trotskyist Truong Mo Dao, calling himself a ‘representative of the Communist Party’, tried to transform the anti-Japanese war into a civil war with the slogan: ‘March with the Japanese, struggle against Chiang Kai Shek’. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2915
Ho Chi Minh: …it has been proved that the Trotskyists are playing a double game, having recourse at the same time to lies and to treachery. They say to the masses: ‘You see, the Communists have sold out to the bourgeoisie. The Kuomintang would not fight against the Japanese!’ Addressing the Kuomintang, they say: ‘The National Front! It’s nothing but a ruse of the Communists. To fight the Japanese you must destroy the Communists’. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2916
Ho Chi Minh: Towards the end of 1936, the politics of uniting against the Japanese triumphed in the events of Tay An. Faced with the defeat of their politics of civil war, the Trotskyists Truong Mo Dao and Ta Duy Liet decided to organise the assassination of Vuong Di Triet, one of the most convinced followers of the National Front. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2917
Ho Chi Minh: When the war approaches, the Japanese promises materialise. The Trotskyists of Shanghai receive 100,000 dollars each month for their activities in the centre and south of the country. Those of Tientsin and Peking 50,000 each month for their activities in Hoa Bac, in the north, against the 8th army and against patriotic organisations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2918
Ho Chi Minh: …the Trotskyist Hoang Phat Hi, amongst other confessions, declared that in the course of the fourth interview with Truong Mo Dao, the latter had given him the following instructions: ‘You must actively study the methods and the system of organisation of the Red Army. After that, you will organise brigades of youth to carry out the tasks of sabotage. Our aim is to provoke disorder within the Red Army and to liquidate its activists’. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2919
Ho Chi Minh: The Trotskyist Quach Uan Kinh has sworn that Ton Ngia Ha charged him with advancing defeatist propaganda amongst the combatants by demonstrating to them that ‘China cannot win’ for ‘even if we end up driving out the Japanese, the Americans and the English will still be there to oppress us’; that ‘not only can we not win, but our land will be destroyed if we continue the war’; that ‘China is too weak to struggle against Japan, England and America at the same time’. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2920
Helen Keller: Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.... https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2921
Lenin: To tell the workers in the handful of rich countries where life is easier, thanks to imperialist pillage, that they must be afraid of “too great” impoverishment, is counter-revolutionary. It is the reverse that they should be told. The labour aristocracy that is afraid of sacrifices, afraid of “too great” impoverishment during the revolutionary struggle, cannot belong to the Party. Otherwise the dictatorship is impossible, especially in West-European countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2928
