Quotes

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"This, incidentally, raises the question of opportunism. Opportunism means sacrificing fundamental interests so as to gain temporary and partial advantages. That is the gist of the matter, if we consider the theoretical definition of opportunism. Many people have gone astray on this point. In the case of the Brest-Litovsk Peace, we sacrificed Russia’s interests, as understood in the patriotic sense, which were, in fact, secondary from the socialist point of view. We made immense sacrifices, yet they were only minor ones. The Germans hated Britain implacably. They hated the Bolsheviks too, but we held out a bait, and they fell for it."

Lenin, Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Activists Of The Moscow Organisation of the R.C.P.(B.)

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Mao Zedong, April 1969, Speech at the First Plenary Session of the Ninth Central Committee

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Che argues that all faith in the bourgeois systems must be shattered and shaken to the core for any chance of revolution to occur

https://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/documents/che.htm

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"Nearly all human life has always taken place far from warm baths."
--from Simone Weil's The Iliad or the Poem of Force

"[...] that love and suffering is the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself."

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