“The modern proletariat was not led by the social-democracy into class struggle. On the contrary, the international social-democratic movement was called into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army... . Without armed struggle there would be… — Mao Zedong 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
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
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
“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
...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
“Not in vain does it [the proletariat] go through the stern but steeling school of labour. It is not a question of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
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
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
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
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 Italian philosopher Paolo Virno says we have moved from having a “proletariat”—a solid block of manual workers with jobs—to a “precariat,”… — Johann Hari 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a… — Gustave Le Bon 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
Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
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