Carl von Clausewitz: War is the continuation of Politik by other means. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4544
Max Stirner: The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4545
Zapata: Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4546
Che Guevara: I am not Christ or a philanthropist. I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4547
Zapata: I would rather die standing than live on my knees! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4548
Stephanie Van Hook: The revolution is not about putting a different kind of person in power but a different kind of power in people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4549
Fran Lebowitz: In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4550
John F. Kennedy: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4551
David Graeber: The 'middle-class' is a faux class. It never really existed. If you have a boss, and earn wages or salary, you are a worker, and should be proud to be in the working class. The term 'middle class' isolates more privileged workers for the benefit of the powerful so that anyone outside of elite circles will be divided and fighting against each other instead of fighting institutions and the power structure. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4552
Henry A. Wallace: A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4553
Henry A. Wallace: If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4554
Otto von Bismarck: Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4555
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