Arthur E. Rowse: A secret clause in the initial NATO agreement in 1949 required that before a nation could join, it must have already established a national security authority to fight communism through clandestine citizen cadres. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3295
Jose Luis Sampedro: The current system is dominated by three other magic words: Productivity, competitiveness and innovation, which should be replaced by distribution, cooperation and recreation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3299
Mao Zedong: We are the opposite of the political parties of the bourgeoisie. They are afraid to speak of the extinction of classes, state power and parties. We, on the contrary, declare openly that we are striving hard to create the very conditions which will bring about their extinction. The leadership of the Communist Party and the state power of the people's dictatorship are such conditions. Anyone who does not recognize this truth is no communist. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3302
Jose Luis Sampedro: The economic development – and I am an economist – that they call sustainable, is absolutely unsustainable; Environmentalists know this very well. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3303
Jose Luis Sampedro: Societies are living entities and, as such, they have a trajectory that ends up exhausting itself. I believe that capitalism is on its last days in its current form. It has evolved: it began with mercantile capitalism, continued with industrial capitalism, then came financial capitalism and now globalization. And globalization is insufficient to guarantee them what they want. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3307
Jose Luis Sampedro: The market is in the hands of the powerful. They say that the market is freedom, but I would like to know what freedom those who go without a cent have in the market. When we talk about freedom we must immediately ask ourselves: whose freedom? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3309
Jose Luis Sampedro: Religious teaching creates dogmatic thinking, a dogma is established and can no longer be discussed, free thought ends. Without it there is neither citizenship nor democracy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3310
Mao Zedong: When a man reaches old age, he will die; the same is true of a party. When classes disappear, all instruments of class struggle -- parties and the state machinery -- will lose their function, cease to be necessary, therefore gradually wither away and end their historical mission; and human society will move to a higher stage. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3312
Mao Zedong: The state apparatus, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument by which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument for the oppression of antagonistic classes, it is violence and not "benevolence". "You are not benevolent!" Quite so. We definitely do not apply a policy of benevolence to the reactionaries and towards the reactionary activities of the reactionary classes. Our policy of benevolence is applied only within the ranks of the people, not beyond them to the reactionaries or to the reactionary activities of reactionary classes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3313
Jose Luis Sampedro: Governing by fear is very effective. If you threaten people that you are going to cut their throats, and then you don’t cut their throats, but you exploit them, hitch them to a car… They will think; Well, at least he hasn’t cut our throats. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3316
Kurt Cobain: If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3319
Eric Hoffer: Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3321
Mao Zedong: The exploiters and reactionaries are, under any circumstance, the minority while the exploited and revolutionaries are the majority. Therefore the dictatorship of the former is unjustifiable, whereas that of the latter is fully justifiable. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3325
Lenin: Take the fundamental laws of modern states, take their administration, take freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, or “equality of all citizens before the law,” and you will see at every turn evidence of the hypocrisy of bourgeois democracy with which every honest and class-conscious worker is familiar. There is not a single state, however democratic, which has no loopholes or reservations in its constitution guaranteeing the bourgeoisie the possibility of dispatching troops against the workers, of proclaiming martial law, and so forth, in case of a “violation of public order,” and actually in case the exploited class “violates” its position of slavery and tries to behave in a non-slavish manner. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3327
Lenin: The ruling party in a bourgeois democracy extends the protection of the minority only to another bourgeois party, while the proletariat, on all serious, profound and fundamental issues, gets martial law or pogroms, instead of the “protection of the minority.” The more highly developed a democracy is, the more imminent are pogroms or civil war in connection with any profound political divergence which is dangerous to the bourgeoisie. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3328
Lenin: Social-chauvinism and opportunism are the same in their political essence; class collaboration, repudiation of the proletarian dictatorship, rejection of revolutionary action, obeisance to bourgeois legality, non-confidence in the proletariat, and confidence in the bourgeoisie. The political ideas are identical, and so is the political content of their tactics. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3329
Lenin: Social-chauvinism is a consummated opportunism. That is beyond doubt. The alliance with the bourgeoisie used to be ideological and secret. It is now public and unseemly. Social-chauvinism draws its strength from nowhere else but this alliance with the bourgeoisie and the General Staffs. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3330
