The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses… — Bela Kun Copy Share Image
When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise,… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers.… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God,… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“It is that they lack the concrete means to organize themselves into a unit that could posit itself in opposition. They have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The most striking fact of the day was the misery of the industrial proletariat. Despite the growth of the economy, or perhaps… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image