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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
February 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
We must give a scientific explanation of society, and clearly explain it to the masses. That is the difference between Marxism and reformism.
-- Trotsky, Discussions on the Transitional Program (1938)
-- Trotsky, Discussions on the Transitional Program (1938)
February 6, 2026 at 1:20 AM
We must give a scientific explanation of society, and clearly explain it to the masses. That is the difference between Marxism and reformism.
-- Trotsky, Discussions on the Transitional Program (1938)
-- Trotsky, Discussions on the Transitional Program (1938)
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
-- Lenin, April Theses (1917)
-- Lenin, April Theses (1917)
February 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
-- Lenin, April Theses (1917)
-- Lenin, April Theses (1917)
The separation of public works from the state, and their migration into the domain of the works undertaken by capital itself, indicates the degree to which the real community has constituted itself in the form of capital.
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
February 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The separation of public works from the state, and their migration into the domain of the works undertaken by capital itself, indicates the degree to which the real community has constituted itself in the form of capital.
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
This is a kind of mutual reconciliation society... Actual extremes cannot be mediated with each other precisely because they are actual extremes. But neither are they in need of mediation, because they are opposed in essence.
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
February 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM
This is a kind of mutual reconciliation society... Actual extremes cannot be mediated with each other precisely because they are actual extremes. But neither are they in need of mediation, because they are opposed in essence.
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
February 4, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
-- "The United Front in Cultural Work" (October 30, 1944), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 235.
-- "The United Front in Cultural Work" (October 30, 1944), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 235.
February 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
-- "The United Front in Cultural Work" (October 30, 1944), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 235.
-- "The United Front in Cultural Work" (October 30, 1944), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 235.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
February 3, 2026 at 1:20 AM
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Something besides charity is needed in order to provide bread for everyone.
-- Louise Michelle
-- Louise Michelle
February 2, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Something besides charity is needed in order to provide bread for everyone.
-- Louise Michelle
-- Louise Michelle
machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 15 (1867)
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 15 (1867)
February 2, 2026 at 1:20 AM
machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 15 (1867)
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 15 (1867)
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
February 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
Mechanical centralism is necessarily complemented by factionalism, which is at once a malicious caricature of democracy and a potential political danger.
-- Trotsky, Letter to Party Meetings (1923)
-- Trotsky, Letter to Party Meetings (1923)
February 1, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Mechanical centralism is necessarily complemented by factionalism, which is at once a malicious caricature of democracy and a potential political danger.
-- Trotsky, Letter to Party Meetings (1923)
-- Trotsky, Letter to Party Meetings (1923)
When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
January 31, 2026 at 6:20 PM
When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
January 31, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
January 30, 2026 at 6:20 PM
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
-- Marx, Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)
-- Marx, Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)
January 30, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
-- Marx, Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)
-- Marx, Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
January 29, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
January 29, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
January 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
Never become alienated from the masses; learn from them and help them. Lead a collective life, inquire into the concerns of the people around you, study their problems and abide by the rules of discipline
-- Zhou Enlai, Guidelines for Myself (1943)
-- Zhou Enlai, Guidelines for Myself (1943)
January 28, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Never become alienated from the masses; learn from them and help them. Lead a collective life, inquire into the concerns of the people around you, study their problems and abide by the rules of discipline
-- Zhou Enlai, Guidelines for Myself (1943)
-- Zhou Enlai, Guidelines for Myself (1943)
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
January 27, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Our mutual value is for us the value of our mutual objects.Hence for us man himself is mutually of no value.
-- Marx, Comment on James Mill (1844)
-- Marx, Comment on James Mill (1844)
January 27, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Our mutual value is for us the value of our mutual objects.Hence for us man himself is mutually of no value.
-- Marx, Comment on James Mill (1844)
-- Marx, Comment on James Mill (1844)
We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
-- Lenin, Better fewer, but Better (1923)
-- Lenin, Better fewer, but Better (1923)
January 26, 2026 at 6:20 PM
We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
-- Lenin, Better fewer, but Better (1923)
-- Lenin, Better fewer, but Better (1923)
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
-- Lord Acton, "Freedom in Antiquity", in The History of Freedom and Other Essays: And Other Essays, (1907), p. 22.
-- Lord Acton, "Freedom in Antiquity", in The History of Freedom and Other Essays: And Other Essays, (1907), p. 22.
January 26, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
-- Lord Acton, "Freedom in Antiquity", in The History of Freedom and Other Essays: And Other Essays, (1907), p. 22.
-- Lord Acton, "Freedom in Antiquity", in The History of Freedom and Other Essays: And Other Essays, (1907), p. 22.