Lenin: The bourgeoisie needs lackeys whom a section of the working class could trust, and who would paint in fine colors, embellish the bourgeoisie with talk about the possibility of the reformist path, who would throw dust in the eyes of the people by this talk, who would divert the people from revolution by depicting in glowing colors the charms and the possibilities of the reformist path. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3044
Alain Badiou: Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3046
Giacomo Matteotti: When the bourgeois class speaks of invasions and threats of the fatherland we cry down your homeland because history proves nothing easier than the fiction of assaults when you are assailants, of invaders when you want to invade and every army is an organ that necessarily requires the function of destroying attacking to attack. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3051
Lenin: Whoever expects a “pure” social revolution will never live to see it. Such a person pays lip-service to revolution without understanding what revolution is. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3053
Maxim Gorky: To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3055
Maxim Gorky: The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3058
Maxim Gorky: Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3059
Xi Jinping: Marxism has provided a strong theoretical weapon for the Chinese revolution, construction and reform, enabling China, an ancient country in the east, to create an unprecedented development miracle in the history of mankind. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3060
Alexandra Kollontai: When a woman’s wages are insufficient to keep her alive, the sale of favours seems a possible subsidiary occupation. The hypocritical morality of bourgeois society encourages prostitution by the structure of its exploitative economy, while at the same time mercilessly covering with contempt any girl or woman who is forced to take this path. The black shadow of prostitution stalks the legal marriage of bourgeois society. History has never before witnessed such a growth of prostitution as occurred in the last part of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In Berlin there is one prostitute for every twenty so-called honest women. In Paris the ratio is one to eighteen and in London one to nine. There are different types of prostitution: there is open prostitution that is legal and subject to regulation, and there is the secret, “seasonal” type, All forms of prostitution flourish like a poisonous flower in the swamps of the bourgeois way of life. The world of the bourgeoisie does not even spare children, forcing young girls of nine and ten into the sordid embraces of wealthy and depraved old men. In the capitalist countries there are brothels which specialise exclusively in very young girls. In this present post-war period every woman faces the possibility of unemployment. Unemployment hits women in particular, and causes an enormous increase in the army of “street women”. Hungry crowds of women seeking out the buyers of “white slaves” flood the evening streets of Berlin. Paris and the other civilised centres of the capitalist states. The trade in women’s flesh is conducted quite openly, which is not surprising when you consider that the whole bourgeois way of life is based on buying and selling. There is an undeniable element of material and economic, considerations even the most legal of marriages. Prostitution is the way out for the woman who fails to find herself a permanent breadwinner. Prostitution, under capitalism provides men with the opportunity of having sexual relationships without having to take upon themselves the responsibility of caring materially for the women until the grave. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3064
Xi Jinping: Liberalism has outlived its usefulness. Marxism-Leninism is barely getting started. Yet we are leading in Science. We are leading in Tech. We are leading in infrastructure. Marxism-Leninism doesn't build the future. We are the future. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3065
Stalin: Social-Democracy can be exposed and reduced to an insignificant minority in the working class only in the course of the day-to-day struggle for the concrete needs of the working class. The Social-Democrats must be pilloried not on the basis of planetary questions, but on the basis of the day-to-day struggle of the working class for improving its material and political conditions; in this, questions concerning wages, hours, housing conditions, insurance, taxation, unemployment, high cost of living, and so forth, must play a most important if not the decisive role. To hit the Social-Democrats day after day on the basis of these questions, exposing their treachery—such is the task. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3067
Kaysone Phomvihane: Only by advancing socialism will we be able to completely eliminate all forms of oppression, eliminate all forms of injustice and inequality, and build a foundation for a new life in which everyone will benefit from their labor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3069
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
