Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia,… — 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
The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know… — Fritz Sauckel 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
At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake… — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
I've grown fonder for Hillary Clinton since she ran for the presidency. I think that it's emblematic of the Rolling Stones song,… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in… — Anonymous 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
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
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be… — Johann Most 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
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
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
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
Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he… — Ernest Mandel 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
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
“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
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which… — Mikhail Kalinin Copy Share Image
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