"The more the workers place their trust in legalism, in constitutionalism, in bourgeois democracy, the more they make sacrifices to save the existing regime as the 'lesser evil' against the menace of Fascism, the heavier become the capitalist attacks and the more rapid the advance to Fascism."

2/ "...and also for the attempted authoritarian economic unification and Organization of its own anarchy, in a last desperate effort to maintain its existence and master the contradictions that are rending it." ~R.P. Dutt

55 years ago Fred Hampton was drugged and assassinated by the state. He was in his bed, unarmed, and wounded from the initial assault when police found him. One cop said he was barely alive, another said he would make it. Two shots rang out and they said "he's good and dead now."

2/ "The transition from capitalism to communism is certainly bound to yield a tremendous abundance and variety of political forms, but the essence will inevitably be the same: the dictatorship of the proletariat." ~Vladimir Lenin

From Earl Browder's "The Meaning of Social Fascism" www.marxists.org/archive/brow...

I have not been able to find the source of this quote. If anyone knows when/where he said it, I'd love to know.

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