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"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto
Quote card: "Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848).
December 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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"We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal."…
Quote card: "We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal." — Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread (1892).
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1930) · #gramsci #crisis
Quote card: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1930).
December 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization
Quote card: "For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." — V. I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done? (1902) · #lenin #theory
Quote card: "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." — V. I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done? (1902).
December 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) · #debeauvoir #feminism
Quote card: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949).
December 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." — Emma Goldman, (Attributed) (1900) · #goldman #anarchism
Quote card: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." — Emma Goldman, (Attributed) (1900).
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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"Freedom is a constant struggle." — Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2016) · #davis #freedom
Quote card: "Freedom is a constant struggle." — Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2016).
December 14, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984
Quote card: "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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"The body has been for women in capitalist society what the factory has been for male waged workers: the primary site of their exploitation and resistance." — Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (2004) · #federici #feminism
Quote card: "The body has been for women in capitalist society what the factory has been for male waged workers: the primary site of their exploitation and resistance." — Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (2004).
December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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"The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human." — Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982) · #bookchin #ecology
Quote card: "The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human." — Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982).
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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"Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." — V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) · #lenin #imperialism
Quote card: "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." — V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916).
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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"No animal shall drink alcohol." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm
Quote card: "No animal shall drink alcohol." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto
Quote card: "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848).
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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"The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class." — V. I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917) · #lenin #state
Quote card: "The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class." — V. I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917).
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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"The African economy is integrated into the very structure of the developed countries' economies; and it is integrated in a manner that is unfavorable to Africa and ensures that Africa is dependent on the big capitalist countries." — Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) · #rodney
Quote card: "The African economy is integrated into the very structure of the developed countries' economies; and it is integrated in a manner that is unfavorable to Africa and ensures that Africa is dependent on the big capitalist countries." — Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972).
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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"If there is hope, it lies in the proles." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984
Quote card: "If there is hope, it lies in the proles." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).
December 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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"Religion is the opium of the people." — Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844) · #marx #religion
Quote card: "Religion is the opium of the people." — Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844).
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas." — Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846) · #marx #ideology
Quote card: "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas." — Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846).
December 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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"No animal shall sleep in a bed." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm
Quote card: "No animal shall sleep in a bed." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).
December 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929) · #gramsci #philosophy
Quote card: "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929).
December 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto
Quote card: "A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848).
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa, intended to subjugate its growth and development through foreign rules." — Thomas Sankara, Speech at the OAU Summit (1987) · #sankara #debt
Quote card: "Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa, intended to subjugate its growth and development through foreign rules." — Thomas Sankara, Speech at the OAU Summit (1987).
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"No animal shall kill any other animal." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm
Quote card: "No animal shall kill any other animal." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918) · #luxemburg #freedom
Quote card: "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918).
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM