Age Quote by Ivan Illich

Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are…

— Steven Weber

But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French…

— C. L. R. James

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable…

— Vladimir Lenin

“When the proletariat declares the dissolution of the hitherto existing world order, it merely declares the secret of its own existence, since it is…

— Karl Marx

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on…

— Leon Trotsky

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

— H. L. Mencken

“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality…

— Gustave Le Bon

My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any…

— Che Guevara

“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary vehicle of…

— J. P. Nettl

The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible…

— Nat Hentoff

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

— Karl Marx