Friedrich Engels: By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour. By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9539
Michael Parenti: Once you frighten the American public, once you demonize the leaders of these countries, then you have license to bomb their people and bomb their infrastructure and destroy their countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9540
Lenin: We say nothing of the fact that bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and "radical" words. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9541
Eduardo Galeano: They came. They had the Bible and we had the land. And they said to us, "Close your eyes and pray". And when we opened our eyes, they had the earth and we had the Bible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9543
Rolf Hochhuth: When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9544
Stalin: Under capitalism there are no real "liberties" for the exploited, nor can there be, if for no reason than that the premises, printing plants, paper supplies, etc, indispensable for the enjoyment of "liberties" are the privilege of the exploiters. Under capitalism the exploited masses do not, nor can they ever, really participate in governing the country, if for no other reason than that, even under the most democratic regime, under conditions of capitalism, governments are not set up by the people but by the Rothschilds and Stinneses, the Rockefellers and Morgans. Democracy under capitalism is capitalist democracy, the democracy of the exploiting minority, based on the restriction of the rights of exploited majority and directed against this majority. Only under the proletarian dictatorship are real liberties for the exploited and real participation of the proletarians and peasants in governing the country possible. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, democracy is proletarian democracy, the democracy of the exploited majority, based on the restriction of the rights of the exploiting minority and directed against this minority. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9545
Lenin: Soviet power has been trying to make it possible for the working people to organise their lives without private property in land, without privately-owned factories, without that private property that everywhere, throughout the world, even where there is complete political liberty, even in the most democratic republics, keeps the working people in a state of what is actually poverty and wage-slavery, and women in a state of double slavery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9546
