Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov: "Western" criticism of present day communism, so far as a grain of rationality is to found in it, is in its entirety, even though only implicitly, self-criticism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3071
Xi Jinping: When Lenin led the October Revolution of 1917 to victory, Socialism transformed from theory to reality, thus breaking the global capitalist order which dominated the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3074
Xi Jinping: Marx would be comforted to know that, Marxism has successfully guided China down the path toward fully developing into a great modern socialist country. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3075
Stalin: What would happen if the Communist Party of America did appeal for aid to the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.? I think the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. would render it whatever assistance it could. Indeed, what would be the worth of the Communist Party, a Party which is in power, if it refused to do what it could to aid the Communist Party of another country laboring under the yoke of capitalism. I would say that such a Communist Party would not be worth a cent. Let us assume that the American working class had come into power after overthrowing its bourgeoisie. Let us assume that the working class of another country appealed to the working class of America, which had emerged victorious in a great struggle against capitalism, for material aid; would the American working class refuse it? I think it would disgrace itself if it hesitated to give the assistance asked for. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3077
Ibrahim Traoré: They keep telling me I will die like Gaddafi, Thomas Sankara, or any young leader that tried to make Africa better. I am not scared, and I won't regret dying for my people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3078
Rousseau: Distrust those cosmopolitans who go to great length in their books to discover duties they do not deign to fulfill around them. A philosopher loves the Tartars so as to be spared having to love his neighbors. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3079
Lyndon B. Johnson: Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3080
Maxim Gorky: This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3087
Stalin: Our revolution is the only one which not only smashed the fetters of capitalism and brought people freedom, but also succeeded in creating for the people the material conditions for a prosperous life. Therein lies the strength and invincibility of our revolution. It is a good thing, of course, to drive out the capitalists, to drive out the landlords, to drive out the Tsarist henchman, to seize power and achieve freedom. That is very good, but, unfortunately, freedom is far from enough. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage of textiles, and if housing conditions are bad, freedom will not carry you very far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live on freedom alone. In order to live well and joyously, the benefits of political freedom must be supplemented by material benefits. The distinctive feature of our revolution is that it brought the people not only freedom, but also material benefits and the possibility of a prosperous and cultured life. That is why life has become joyous in our country, and that is the soil from which the Stakhanov movement sprang. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3088
Vladimir Jabotinsky: There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3089
Stalin: We may take it as the rule that as long as the Bolsheviks maintain connection with the broad masses of the people they will be invincible. And, on the contrary, as soon as the Bolsheviks become severed from the masses and lose their connection with them, as soon as they become covered with bureaucratic rust, they will lose all their strength and become a mere squib. In the mythology of the ancient Greeks there is the celebrated hero Antaeus who, so the legend goes, was the son of Poseidon, god of the seas, and Gaea, goddess of the earth. Antaeus was particularly attached to his mother who gave birth to him, suckled him and reared him. There was not a hero whom this Antaeus did not vanquish. He was regarded as an invincible hero. Wherein lay his strength? It lay in the fact that every time he was hard pressed in the fight against his adversary he touched the earth, his mother, who gave birth to him and suckled him, and that gave him new strength. But he had a vulnerable spot - the danger of being detached from the earth in some way or other. His enemies took this into account and watched for it. One day an enemy appeared who took advantage of this vulnerable spot and vanquished Antaeus. This was Hercules. How did Hercules vanquish Antaeus? He lifted him off the ground, kept him suspended, prevented him from touching the ground and throttled him. I think that the Bolsheviks remind us of the hero of Greek mythology, Antaeus. They, like Antaeus, are strong because they maintain connection with their mother, the masses who gave birth to them, suckled them and reared them. And as long as they maintain connection with their mother, with the people, they have every chance of remaining invincible. This is the key to the invincibility of Bolshevik leadership. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3090
Che Guevara: The earth needs people who work harder and criticize less, who build more and destroy less, who promise less and solve more, who expect to receive less and give more, who say better now than tomorrow. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3093
John F. Kennedy: There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3095
Lenin: The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3096
Andrew Collier: To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3099
Karl Marx: The colonies secured a market for the budding manufactures, and, through the monopoly of the market, an increased accumulation. The treasures captured outside Europe by undisguised looting, enslavement, and murder, flowed back to the mother country. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3101
Karl Marx: Working men's Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs are enshrined in the great heart of the working class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3103
Bhagat Singh: The business of journalism, once considered noble, has become most dirty… the real duty of the newspapers is to educate, to cleanse the minds of people, to save them from narrow sectarian divisiveness, and to eradicate communal feelings to promote the idea of common nationalism. Instead, their main objective seems to be spreading ignorance, preaching and propagating sectarianism and chauvinism, communalising people’s minds leading to the destruction of our composite culture and shared heritage. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3104
