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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · Oct 16

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
-- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 16h

Policy and tactics are the life of the Party; leading comrades at all levels must give them full attention and must never on any account be negligent.
-- "A Circular on the Situation" (March 20, 1948), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 220.

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 23h

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy.
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 1d

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism, " but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
-- Lenin, Letter to Inessa Armand (1916)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 1d

A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 2d

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.
-- "Build Stable Base Areas in the Northeast" (December 28, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 84.

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 2d

Socialists must explain to the masses that they have no other road of salvation except the revolutionary overthrow of "their" governments, and that advantage must be taken of these governments' embarrassments in the present war precisely for this purpose.
-- Lenin, Socialism and War (1915)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 3d

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.
-- "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, pp. 296-97.

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 3d

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
-- Karl Marx

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 4d

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; only mobilizing the masses and relying on them can wage it.
-- "Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work" (January 27, 1934), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 147.

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 4d

Capital is money: Capital is commodities. ... Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 4 (1867)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 5d

It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear...
-- Bhagat Singh, The Red Pamphlet (1929)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 5d

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
-- Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 6d

Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.
-- Peter Kropotkin

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 6d

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 7d

The US is also a one party state but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them
-- Julius Nyerere

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 7d

Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.
-- Emma Goldman

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 8d

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalist to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
-- Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (1847)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 8d

We Communists...stand for the organizational unity of the labor movement; we stand for a great single mass Party of the proletariat.
-- Bela Kun, The Most Burning Question: Unity of Action (1934)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 9d

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
-- Marx, published by Engels Capital, Volume III (1894)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 10d

And as to prices, they will serve the cause of socialism better, the more honestly they begin to express the real economic relations of the present day.
-- Trotsky, Revolution Betrayed (1936)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 10d

Modern monopolist capitalism on a world-wide scale - imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists.
-- Lenin, Preface to Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1920)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 11d

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
-- Karl Marx

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 11d

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, ie of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 12d

the working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
-- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)

Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 12d

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
-- Karl Marx