Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position... The American… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“When the proletariat declares the dissolution of the hitherto existing world order, it merely declares the secret of its own existence, since… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
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
If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan. — T. J. Clark Copy Share Image
“She is a waitress at his lordships club. My God! The Proletariat! The lower middle classes, sir. Well, yes, by stretching it… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic… — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party,… — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
