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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
All efforts and all attention should now be concentrated on the next step - the search after forms of the transition or the em>approach to the proletarian revolution.
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
December 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
All efforts and all attention should now be concentrated on the next step - the search after forms of the transition or the em>approach to the proletarian revolution.
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
When feudalism was overthrown and "free" capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
December 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
When feudalism was overthrown and "free" capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
The stubborn, doltish, and insensate rejection by the Communist Party of the policies of the united front provides the Social Democracy, under the present conditions, with its most important political weapon.
-- Trotsky, Bureaucratic Ultimatism (1932)
-- Trotsky, Bureaucratic Ultimatism (1932)
December 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The stubborn, doltish, and insensate rejection by the Communist Party of the policies of the united front provides the Social Democracy, under the present conditions, with its most important political weapon.
-- Trotsky, Bureaucratic Ultimatism (1932)
-- Trotsky, Bureaucratic Ultimatism (1932)
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
-- Mikhail Bakunin
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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nazis are bad because you shouldn't hate other people, communism is good because sharing is caring. any questions?
December 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
nazis are bad because you shouldn't hate other people, communism is good because sharing is caring. any questions?
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich - that is the democracy of capitalist society.
-- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)
-- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)
December 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich - that is the democracy of capitalist society.
-- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)
-- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)
In all forms of society there is one specific kind of production which predominates over the rest, ... a general illumination which bathes all the other colours and modifies their particularity.
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
December 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In all forms of society there is one specific kind of production which predominates over the rest, ... a general illumination which bathes all the other colours and modifies their particularity.
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
December 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
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This is like a Linkin Park lyric. Marx was cooking
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is like a Linkin Park lyric. Marx was cooking
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Tremble, oppressors of the world! Not far beyond your purblind sight there dawns the scarlet and sable lights of the Judgment Day.
-- Pittsburgh Manifesto
-- Pittsburgh Manifesto
December 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Tremble, oppressors of the world! Not far beyond your purblind sight there dawns the scarlet and sable lights of the Judgment Day.
-- Pittsburgh Manifesto
-- Pittsburgh Manifesto
What we need is an enthusiastic but calm state of mind and intense but orderly work.
-- "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" (December 1936), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 211.
-- "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" (December 1936), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 211.
December 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
What we need is an enthusiastic but calm state of mind and intense but orderly work.
-- "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" (December 1936), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 211.
-- "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" (December 1936), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 211.
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
-- Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)
-- Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)
December 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
-- Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)
-- Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not at all our task to descend to the level of the "working masses."
-- Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, "The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries" (1904)
-- Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, "The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries" (1904)
December 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not at all our task to descend to the level of the "working masses."
-- Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, "The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries" (1904)
-- Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, "The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries" (1904)
The Soviet bureaucracy is like all ruling classes in that it is ready to shut its eyes to the crudest mistakes of its leaders in the sphere of general politics, provided in return they show an unconditional fidelity in the defense of its privileges.
-- Trotsky, Revolution Betrayed (1936)
-- Trotsky, Revolution Betrayed (1936)
December 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The Soviet bureaucracy is like all ruling classes in that it is ready to shut its eyes to the crudest mistakes of its leaders in the sphere of general politics, provided in return they show an unconditional fidelity in the defense of its privileges.
-- Trotsky, Revolution Betrayed (1936)
-- Trotsky, Revolution Betrayed (1936)
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
December 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
-- Engels, Principles of Communism (1847)
-- Engels, Principles of Communism (1847)
December 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
-- Engels, Principles of Communism (1847)
-- Engels, Principles of Communism (1847)
Not only can we manage very well without the interference of the capitalist class in the great industries of the country, but that their interference is becoming more and more a nuisance.
-- Engels, Social Classes - Necessary and Superfluous (1881)
-- Engels, Social Classes - Necessary and Superfluous (1881)
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Not only can we manage very well without the interference of the capitalist class in the great industries of the country, but that their interference is becoming more and more a nuisance.
-- Engels, Social Classes - Necessary and Superfluous (1881)
-- Engels, Social Classes - Necessary and Superfluous (1881)
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
December 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
The revolution will move forward until its consolidation is total. The time is still far off when there can be a period of relative calm. And life is always revolution.
-- Antonio Gramsci, The Russian Maximalists (1916)
-- Antonio Gramsci, The Russian Maximalists (1916)
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The revolution will move forward until its consolidation is total. The time is still far off when there can be a period of relative calm. And life is always revolution.
-- Antonio Gramsci, The Russian Maximalists (1916)
-- Antonio Gramsci, The Russian Maximalists (1916)
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
-- Marx, Preface to First German Edition of Capital (1867)
-- Marx, Preface to First German Edition of Capital (1867)
December 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
-- Marx, Preface to First German Edition of Capital (1867)
-- Marx, Preface to First German Edition of Capital (1867)