Lenin: Engels was a thousand times right when he wrote that to conceive equality as meaning anything beyond the abolition of classes is a very stupid and absurd prejudice. Bourgeois professors have tried to make use of the concept of equality to accuse us of wanting to make all men equal to one another. They have tried to accuse the socialists of this absurdity, which they themselves invented. But in their ignorance they did not know that the socialists — and precisely the founders of modern scientific socialism, Marx and Engels — said: Equality is an empty phrase unless equality is understood to mean the abolition of classes. We want to abolish classes, and in this respect we stand for equality. But the claim that we want to make all men equal to one another is an empty phrase and a stupid invention of intellectuals. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3012
Friedrich Engels: 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#quote3013
Karl Marx: Ever since the first report reached us of English hostilities in China, the Government journals of England and a portion of the American Press have been heaping wholesale denunciations upon the Chinese. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3014
Karl Marx: England has subverted the conditions of Irish society. At first it confiscated the land then it suppressed the industry by ‘Parliamentary enactments’, and lastly, it broke the active energy by armed force. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3015
Khalil Gibran: They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3017
Mahdi Amel: Sects, in their political existence, exist within and not without the bourgeois state. There is no political presence for them except in this state, which is, by its very class nature, a sectarian state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3018
Xi Jinping: It was the cannon blast of the October Revolution that brought Marxism-Leninism to China offering a new choice for the Chinese people who were seeking a way to save China from subjugation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3019
Patrice Lumumba: No brutality, mistreatment, or torture has ever forced me to ask for grace, for I prefer to die with my head high, my faith steadfast, and my confidence profound in the destiny of my country, rather than to live in submission and scorn of sacred principles. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3020
Ibrahim Traoré: I don't want my people to relocate to foreign countries in search of greener pastures, Africa is the richest continent in the world just that we fail to exploit our resources. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3022
Stalin: Who does not know that pious talk of peace, as a camouflage for resolute support of a policy of war and conquest, is one of the old, old imperialist methods of deceiving the masses? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3025
Paul Lafargue: Middle-class idealism is far more dangerous than Christianity; it is with its divinities – property, liberty, justice, order, country, &c., that all the middle-class freethinkers and Catholics, priest-eaters, Jew-baiters, republicans and monarchists, Radicals and Ministerial Socialists will stupefy the brains of the workers and turn them aside from the class struggle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3028
Jordan Maxwell: Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3030
Lenin: Fulfilling the task with which it has been charged by the capitalists of all countries, German militarism wants to strangle the Russian and Ukrainian workers and peasants, to return the land to the landowners, the mills and factories to the bankers, and power to the monarchy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3032
Stalin: The workers of the Soviet Union are merely carrying out their duty in giving help within their power to the revolutionary masses of Spain. They are aware that the liberation of Spain from the yoke of fascist reactionaries is not a private affair of the Spanish people but the common cause of the whole of advanced and progressive mankind. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3034
Lê Duẩn: We are completely confident that the invincible banner of Marxism-Leninism will certainly take the revolutionary cause of the world’s people and of Việt Nam to splendid successes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3040
Eugene V. Debs: The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3041
Karl Marx: The moderation of the Commune during the two months of undisputed sway is equalled only by the heroism of its defence. What does that prove? Why, that for months the Commune carefully hid, under a mask of moderation and humanity, the bloodthirstiness of its fiendish instincts to be let loose in the hour of its agony! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3042
Karl Marx: The working men’s Paris, in the act of its heroic self-holocaust, involved in its flames buildings and monuments. While tearing to pieces the living body of the proletariat, its rulers must no longer expect to return triumphantly into the intact architecture of their abodes. The government of Versailles cries, “Incendiarism!” and whispers this cue to all its agents, down to the remotest hamlet, to hunt up its enemies everywhere as suspect of professional incendiarism. The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3043
