“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of history will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.” -Stalin

"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:

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” Che

No altar, no belief, no holy book, neither the Qur’an nor the Bible nor the others, have ever been able to reconcile the rich and the poor, the exploiter and the exploited. And if Jesus himself had to take the whip to chase them from his temple, it is indeed because that is the only language they hear.” Thomas Sankara

Capitalism more like crapitalism amirite

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.

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

Several lines, but feels particularly relevant these days. From James Baldwin:

The people who are running around throwing people in jail and ruining reputations and screaming about Communists wouldn’t know one if he fell from the ceiling. And wouldn’t care! What they are concerned about is propping up somehow the doctrine of white supremacy, so that they can seem to have given it up, but really still hold the power.

We're coming for that toothbrush.

Every cancer is a homicide, every boss better run and hide - :boots-riley:

“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

"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."

“Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free people will walk to build a better society.” ~ Salvador Allende

“You will be shot” -Lenin

What was the :citations-needed: quote about the atomic unit of propaganda?

God will not forgive us if we fail. - Leonid Brezhnev