Bitch, you are a serf. We're in- we're in fucking 1320, motherfucker. You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace.
"It takes a good guy with a state to stop a bad guy with a state"
-Lenin, State and Revolution
"Mom said it's my turn on the state apparatus" - V. I. Lenin
Stalin vs. Trotsky, the baby years
lmao a long time ago I drunkenly summed up state and rev as "the only thing that can stop a bad class with a state is a good class with a state"
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
[Zhukov] A modern soldier's greatest fear, it's not death, it's not starvation, it's chafing!
[Khrushchev, interjecting] ...And then he planted the flag in Hitler's bunker or he knocked the bear out with one punch.
[Zhukov] ...It was Goebbels's bunker, not Hitler's!
“'Where is imperialism?” Look at your plates when you eat. These imported grains of rice, corn, and millet – that is imperialism.”
Thomas Sankara.
"‘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.
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
- @wombat
This one gets an audible laugh from me every time
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” – Lenin.
mfw this week was -100 years
I want to get off these weeks' wild ride. :doomer:
all oppressed people have a right to violence - Lizzy Borden
The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.
Not communist per se, but I like this quote which I think is from Lula:
Those in power can kill one, two, or three roses, but they will never be able to stop the coming of spring
Oh and the Chad from that vice documentary:
The kind Vladimir Ilyich would've shot everybody here.
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
-Julius Nyerere
she's electable if you fucking vote for her
You Yankee fucks missed again
Fidel Castro, probably
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.
"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:
“give me that fucking infant”
-me
a fascist jerked off today, did you?
"there are no liberators. the people liberate themselves" - che, iirc
Death to America
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.
This one in particular is good if the person you're speaking to is religious. I used a simplified version to explain my disgust for Saudi Arabia very quickly, and in particular what they have done in Mecca with all their grand luxury hotels around the Kabaah.
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)
If you don't steal from your boss, you're stealing from your family.
Easy way to remember how to spell "bourgeoisie":
1: type "bourg" because that's the easy part to remember.
2: type a bunch of vowels at random and chuck an "s" in there somewhere.
3: auto-correct should be able to guess it at this point.
https://nitter.net/existentialcoms/status/1362809982664671232?t=GzpVos_UEkq0HIKLiWpNzA&s=19
"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.
"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
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