Schafik Jorge Handal: The conquest of power by the proletariat in order to put an end to capitalism cannot be brought about by voting or by electoral maneuvers. Without deprecating, of course, the useful contributions participating in elections can make to the cause of revolution, it is necessary to go back to Marx in order to underscore the fact that the main role in the development of the revolutionary process and its victorious culmination is played by revolutionary violence — the “midwife of history,” as Marx called it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3433
Schafik Jorge Handal: Our revolutionary struggle has its roots in a half-century-long process of struggles for democracy and social justice. The Salvadoran people sought to advance toward their aims by peaceful means, including elections, until such possibilities were exhausted. The rich and recalcitrant oligarchy of the big capitalists and landlords and their instrument of domination, the reactionary military dictatorship, smothered those efforts and hopes in the torture chambers, in the jails, in exile, in the abundant blood shed by their butchery, and in the more and more open and widespread electoral frauds. As a result there arose in time the armed struggle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3434
Schafik Jorge Handal: If in certain countries the ideas of Marxism-Leninism have lost ground in workers movements that have become reformist, this is above all the responsibility of the workers party, which at a certain point failed to comply with the day-to-day task of bringing scientific socialism to the labor movement and the entire working people, thus losing the ideological battle to the bourgeoisie, at least temporarily. The fact is that this elementary task of the party of socialism can only be carried out — under capitalist conditions — by promoting the revolutionary struggle of the workers, aimed at the fundamental and unrenounceable objective of the conquest of power. Without this, socialism is impossible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3435
Eric Cantona: The best moment of my career? When I kicked the fascist. Some people think it's a dream to kick a fascist. I did it for them. So they are happy. It's a kind of dream to kick a fascist — it's not something you do every day. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3437
Grover Furr: I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just 'a mistake here and there', but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3444
Joe Slovo: It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3445
Mao Zedong: These people tell the Communists, "Hand over your troops and we will grant you freedom"... yet whatever freedom we enjoyed vanished with the Kuomintang government's policies of "party purge" and massacre... Without a people's army, the people have nothing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3447
Philip Agee: I don't think we have ever had real democracy in this country. Anyone who studies adoption of the constitution will understand quite clearly that; democracy - as we understand that on today; was the last thing the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution ....it was: to establish strong central authority responding the elitist interests in United States. That's private property. And those men who wrote the constitution were representatives of the elites. They were the lawyers, bankers, merchants, the land owners, slave owners and so forth. And they write the constitution for their own private interest$. That is how government has served ever since. And that is why we have so little democracy in United States. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3448
Philip Agee: What the Agency does is ordered by the President and the NSC. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President ... to use in any way he pleases. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3449
Philip Agee: George Bush's father (George H.W. Bush) came in as C.I.A. director the month following the Welch assassination. As Director he presided over the agency as they mounted a campaign throughout western Europe trying to make me appear to be a security threat, a traitor, a Soviet agent, a Cuban agent. All those sorts of things which led to my expulsion from five different NATO countries in the late 1970s. In fact it was all based on lies, and to think that I was responsible for the death of any C.I.A. people for their exposure is absolutely false. No one, as far as I know, of all those people who were exposed as C.I.A. people along with their operations, was ever even harassed or threatened. What happened was, their operations were disrupted and that was the purpose of what we were doing. We were right to do it then because the U.S. policy at the time, executed by the C.I.A., was to support murderous dictatorships around the world as in Vietnam, as in Greece, as in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil; and that's only to name a few. We opposed that use of the U.S. intelligence service for those dirty operations- and I'm talking about regimes now that tortured and disappeared people by the thousands. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3450
The Godfather: Probably, all the other families will line up against us. That's all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know, you gotta stop 'em at the beginning, like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never have let him get away with that. They was just asking for big trouble. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3451
Jimmy Carter: AIPAC is not dedicated to peace. They’re dedicated to inducing the maximum support in America, in the White House, in the Congress and in the public media, for whatever policies the Israeli government has at a particular time. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3455
Vladimir Molotov: When we helped Sadat, the Arabs could arm themselves more and resist the imperialists, and now they are forcing the imperialists to bow down in some ways. And the Arabs realized that they had to unite. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3456
Thierry Meyssan: After the economic crisis of 1929, the whole world was convinced, and rightly so, that the capitalism of that time was over. The Soviet Union alone offered an alternative, Bolshevism. Soon the United States came up with a second alternative, the structural reforms of the New Deal, and then Italy promoted a third alternative, fascism. The great Anglo-Saxon capitalists chose to support a new regime, close to fascism, Nazism. They thought that Germany would attack the USSR, thus preserving their interests threatened by both Bolshevik collectivisations and US economic reforms. However, nothing worked out as planned, since Italy, Germany and Japan formed the Axis with their own logic and the war was not started against the Soviets, but against the great fortunes that prepared it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3458
Kim Jong-Un: The single-hearted unity of the army and people around the Party is our strongest weapon and a powerful propellant for building a thriving socialist country. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3459
Rodolfo Walsh: People learned that they were alone and that they had to fight for themselves, that within each one of them they would find the way, the silence, the astuteness and the strength. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3461
Ahmed Sékou Touré: To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3462
Aaron Swartz: With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we'll make it a thing of the past. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3463
Aaron Swartz: Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3464
Aaron Swartz: There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3465
