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> [Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually methodologically written out the Communists because, when an uprising takes place, you don't necessarily see red flags everywhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/interestingly-if-you-write-preparation-out-of-history-leadership-and/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

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## More by Vijay Prashad

> [Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/organizing-is-always-a-relationship-between-the-person-who-arrives/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/you-cannot-have-politics-without-building-mass-movements/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [We would like to participate in manifestations, in Occupies and things like that. We would like to be involved in a march. But we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/we-would-like-to-participate-in-manifestations-in-occupies-and-things/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [Mr. Assad is not going to be able to feel like there is a moderate opposition that actually threatens him. Currently, the Assad government…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/mr-assad-is-not-going-to-be-able-to-feel-like-there-is-a-moderate/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/we-are-social-beings-who-make-communities-with-an-urgency-and-it-is-a/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/the-islamic-state-is-able-to-raise-finances-through-taxation-through/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/where-there-is-a-living-memory-of-struggle-they-have-a-living-memory/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/it-is-convenient-for-hillary-clinton-and-tony-blair-to-say-the-rise/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/the-best-intentions-of-respect-and-tolerance-can-often-be-annoying-to/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so-called 'propaganda…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/you-see-one-strand-of-anarchism-believed-that-you-needed-to-use/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its extraterritorial or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/however-you-define-territorial-ambitions-it-need-not-be-a-country/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/interestingly-what-the-bourgeois-women-s-groups-in-india-wanted-to-do/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/mr-obama-at-the-un-said-that-the-large-nations-should-not-trample/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [In times when the tempo for struggle is not very high, you prepare populations by conducting acts of courage-building, confidence-building, respect for each other.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/in-times-when-the-tempo-for-struggle-is-not-very-high-you-prepare/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

> [To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/to-build-a-mass-movement-nonviolence-is-indispensable/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

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