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Lenin: To expect impartial science in a society founded on slavery is as stupidly naive as expecting impartiality from the owners of the means of production that the wages of workers should be increased to the detriment of the profits of capitalists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5251
Enver Hoxha: The Eurocommunists do not want to see the existence of a major national problem, the question of American domination in Western Europe and the need for liberation from it. From the end of the Second World War to this day, American imperialism has bound this part of Europe with all kinds of political, economic, military, cultural and other chains. Without breaking these chains you cannot have socialism, or even that bourgeois democracy which the Eurocommunists praise to the skies. American capital has penetrated so deeply into Europe, is so closely combined with local capital that where one begins and the other finishes can no longer be distinguished. The European armies have been so completely integrated into NATO, in which the Americans dominate, that in practice they no longer exist as independent national forces. An ever greater integration is developing in the financial and monetary field, in technology, culture. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5252
Bob Marley: You will never find Justice in a world where criminals make the rules. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5253
Frederick Douglass: Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5254
Mumia Abu-Jamal: If you ain’t angry, you ain’t paying attention. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5255
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: Palestine, its people, its history, its culture, its art, its poetry, its very land, is dismissed as a mere trifle by the U.S. Empire, not dissimilar to the response of the old British Empire, which dispatched the lands, hopes and dreams of the Palestinians, with cold, imperial aplomb. For empire is ever an exercise of global violence, for domination is but utter violation: the very root of violence. It violates the human soul, which yearns for freedom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5256
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Palestine was relegated to the misery of a warren of Middle Eastern ghettoes for one reason — and one reason only: To allow the erection of a colonial outpost from which Britain (and later the U.S.) could exercise power in a region that held the greatest prize in world history: petroleum. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5257
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Palestine is a minor after thought to the U.S. Empire and its imperialist apologists. Her pain, her sufferings, her gross humiliations don’t bother the empire one whit. Yet, to millions of people, throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, their unjust and cruel treatment at the hands of the Zionist finds purchase in hearts worldwide. From their epic losses spring the fruits of solidarity that binds us, human to human; oppressed to oppressed. As the cruelties of imperialism mount, giving rise to anger and distaste, the forces of solidarity grow too, encapsulating the majority of the people of the Earth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5258
Frantz Fanon: To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5259
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Karl Marx: The economic structure of capitalist society has grown out of the economic structure of feudal society. The dissolution of the latter set free the elements of the former. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5260
Kim Il Sung: The collapse of capitalism and the victory of socialism and communism is an inexorable law of human history. The new and the progressive, however small, will win victory sooner or later. This is an objective law and science. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5261
Stalin: Comrade Kim Il Sung is a true proletarian internationalist and leader of the communist movement, who defended our Soviet Union at the cost of his blood... with weapons, against the aggression of the imperialists in the East. Without the struggle of genuine communists like Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Soviet Union would not be able to continue socialist construction in the peaceful environment it is today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5262
Fidel Castro: Comrade Kim Il Sung is the most experienced and prestigious among leaders around the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5263
Che Guevara: I was very moved by Comrade Kim Il Sung, who said that although his country was still experiencing difficulties, he would give active support to the Cuban people. The words of respected Comrade Kim Il Sung captured my heart completely... from this moment on I will keep his words as the saying of my life. And I firmly swear that I will remain true to my saying until the end. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5264
Lenin: The way the enemies of the proletariat take advantage of every deviation from a thoroughly consistent commu- nist line was perhaps most strikingly shown in the case of the Kronstadt mutiny, when the bourgeois counter-revolutionaries and whiteguards in all countries of the world immediately expressed their readiness to accept the slogans of the Soviet system, if only they might thereby secure the overthrow of the dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia, and when the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the bourgeois counter-revolutionaries in general resorted in Kronstadt to slogans calling for an insurrection against the Soviet Government of Russia ostensibly in the interest of the Soviet power. These facts fully prove that the whiteguards strive, and are able, to disguise themselves as Communists, and even as the most Left-wing Communists, solely for the purpose of weakening and destroying the bulwark of the proletarian revolution in Russia. Menshevik leaflets distributed in Petrograd on the eve of the Kronstadt mutiny likewise show how the Mensheviks took advantage of the disagreements and certain rudiments of factionalism in the Russian Communist Party actually in order to egg on and support the Kronstadt mutineers, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the whiteguards, while claiming to be opponents of mutiny and supporters of the Soviet power, only with supposedly slight modifications. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5265
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Enver Hoxha: Constant preservation and strengthening of the unity of the people around the Party constitutes one of the most fundamental problems of the entire work of the Party and its levers, a decisive condition for the triumph of the revolution, the construction of socialist society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5266
Kwame Ture: When you see people call themselves revolutionary always talking about destroying, destroying, destroying but never talking about building or creating, they’re not revolutionary. They do not understand the first thing about revolution. It’s creating. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5267
Ronald Wright: John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. This helps explain why American culture is so hostile to the idea of limits, why voters during the last energy shortage rejected the sweater-wearing Jimmy Carter and elected Ronald Reagan who told them it was still “morning in America.” Nowhere does the myth of progress have more fervent believers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5268
Jean-Paul Sartre: Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5269
Jean-Paul Sartre: We are dealing here with a kind of worker aristocracy; around them would gravitate the people who were to be helped and raised up but who, for the moment, really were inferiors within the context of the working class itself. This translated into the choice of a particular form of unionization. When the time came to raise the issue of forming industrial unions, the skilled workers opted for craft-based organization, because that would exclude the unskilled. Objectively, this gave rise to a particular kind of union struggle that was real enough at the time, because in practice it was enough for the skilled workforce in a factory—the minority—to go on strike for operations to cease, even if the unskilled majority wanted to go on working. The union practice of the time, the kind of self-valuing, the type of struggle and form of organization, corresponded strictly to what those workers were, to what the machine was. We are not saying here that they were wrong or right: they were all that the universal lathe allowed them to be. It was in them, as their superiority; they interiorized it, and this interiorization, or subjectivation, produced the whole phenomenon of anarcho-syndicalism. This was not, as Lukács claims, because they did not grasp the totality of what the working class was and what its struggle was. On the contrary, because they were at the centre of production, they did grasp it as it was at that time. It is true that at that time they were far better qualified than the rest, but it is also true that this led to the development of yellow unions, an aristocracy of labour and a host of fairly aberrant secondary elements reflecting that conception, that interiorization in the form of social superiority, which disappeared wherever work that required training was replaced by semi-automated, then automated machines. But in that epoch they could not have been expected to foresee the existence of such machines, practically and in their struggle. Of course Marx described them in Capital, but he was a theorist, a leader of the International, not a worker who struggles at every instance of his life, someone who is formed by the machine and at the same time internally transforms it. Which means that class consciousness itself has its limits, which are the limits of the situation as long as that situation has not been completely revealed. Should this lead us to describe this type of 'class consciousness' as empty? Should we decide that the anarcho-syndicalists were not the men required? On the contrary, it is because they were aware of their strength, their courage and their worth, because they established unions and specific forms of struggle, that other forms of struggle could emerge in the era when specialized workers appeared. In the course of struggle, the subjective moment, as a way of being inside the objective moment, is absolutely indispensable to the dialectical development of social life and the historical process. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5270
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Jean-Paul Sartre: An anti‐Semitic mob will consider it has done enough when it has massacred some Jews and burned a few synagogues. It represents, therefore, a safety valve for the owning classes, who encourage it and thus substitute for a dangerous hate against their regime a beneficent hate against particular people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5271
Jean-Paul Sartre: I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5272
Roger Ebert: We observe that nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5273
Leila Khaled: My historic mission was as a warrior in the inevitable battle between oppressors and oppressed, exploiters and exploited, I decided to become a revolutionary in order to liberate my people and myself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5274
David Graeber: We have become a civilization based on work—not even 'productive work' but work as an end and meaning in itself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5275
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Walter Benjamin: Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5276