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Socialism or barbarism.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen Jay Gould
Poor countries aren't underdeveloped, they are overexploited. Parenti.
she's electable if you fucking vote for her
"‘Who, except hopeless bureaucrats, can rely on written documents alone? Who, except archive rats, does not understand that a party and its leaders must be tested primarily by their deeds . . . Lenin taught us to test revolutionary parties, trends and leaders not by their declarations and resolutions, but by their deeds.’"
Stalin.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
You Yankee fucks missed again
Fidel Castro, probably
Not from a communist, but wonderfully captures alienation in commodity production and the inescapable ethical reality of consumption:
“For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale
Why don't you live for the people? Why don't you struggle for the people? Why don't you die for the people? - Fred Hampton
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution - Fred Hampton
Dare to struggle! Dare to win! - Mao
We must dare to invent the future - Thomas Sankara
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I am changing the things I cannot accept - Angela Davis
Sometimes, history needs a push - Lenin
I believe in only one thing, the power of human will - Stalin
We are nothing, Let us be everything! - Pierre De Geyter (the Internationale)
"While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." -Eugene V. Debs
"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality." -Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings"
"A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a point, one can only fight fire with fire"
"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind"
All from Nelson Mandela :mandela:
"The so-called crisis of homelessness has not abated, and it can’t. So, therefore, has my sense of rage not abated, and it can’t." - Don Mitchell, Mean Streets: Homelessness, public space, and the limits of capital. Definitely one of my favorite books I've read in the last couple years.
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist." - Dom Helder Camara. Pretty sure he wasn't actually a lefty but this is still good.
Hunger is hunger; but the hunger that is satisfied by cooked meat eaten with a knife and fork differs from hunger that devours raw meat with the help of hands, nails and teeth. - Karl Marx.
"Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Nazis are harmless. Therefore when I kill a Nazi I'm saving lives."
-:pavlichenko:
“give me that fucking infant”
-me
Always thought this line from the manifesto was banger
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
"I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood. I had... vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done."
“A man is not killed when his heart is struck by a bullet; he is killed when he is cancelled.” - Joseph Stalin
“A woke peasant can harvest plenty of soy.” - Ho Chi Minh
“Many men wish death upon me. Lord, I don't cry no more; I don't look to the sky no more. Have mercy on me.” - Fidel Castro