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Favorite Quotes

Marx/Engles

• • "Social reforms are never carried by the weakness of the strong, but always by the strength of the weak."
• 'the union of the working classes of the different countries must ultimately make international wars impossible."
  • "the alliance of the working classes of all countries will ultimately kill war."
• "Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite"
  • "Even the most favorable situation for the working class, no matter how it improves the material conditions of the worker, does not eliminate the contradictions between his interests and those of the bourgeois, the capitalist."
• "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Vladimir Lenin

• • "A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution."
• "Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot."
  • "Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps."
• "Fascism is capitalism in decay."
  • "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
• "Sometimes - history needs a push."
  • "When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state."

Mao Zedong

• "If there is to be revolution, there must be a revolutionary party. Without a revolutionary party, without a party built on the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary theory and in the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary style, it is impossible to lead the working class and the broad masses of the people in defeating imperialism and its running dogs."
  • "We must have faith in the masses and we must have faith in the Party. These are two cardinal principles. If we doubt these principles, we shall accomplish nothing."
• "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
  • "The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history."
• "The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge."
  • "Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership - such is the basic method of leadership."
• "We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness."