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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.
-- Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, Preface to The Emancipation of Women in Writings of V.I. Lenin (1933)
-- Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, Preface to The Emancipation of Women in Writings of V.I. Lenin (1933)
January 14, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.
-- Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, Preface to The Emancipation of Women in Writings of V.I. Lenin (1933)
-- Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, Preface to The Emancipation of Women in Writings of V.I. Lenin (1933)
Just as the operation of the laws of physiology yields different results in a growing than in a dying organism, so the laws of Marxist economy assert themselves differently in a developing and disintegrating capitalism.
-- Trotsky, Marxism in Our Time (1939)
-- Trotsky, Marxism in Our Time (1939)
January 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Just as the operation of the laws of physiology yields different results in a growing than in a dying organism, so the laws of Marxist economy assert themselves differently in a developing and disintegrating capitalism.
-- Trotsky, Marxism in Our Time (1939)
-- Trotsky, Marxism in Our Time (1939)
Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
-- "Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
-- "Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
-- "Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
-- "Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
January 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
January 12, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.
-- "On the Chungking Negotiations" (October 17, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 58.
-- "On the Chungking Negotiations" (October 17, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 58.
January 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.
-- "On the Chungking Negotiations" (October 17, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 58.
-- "On the Chungking Negotiations" (October 17, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 58.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
January 11, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.
-- Lenin, The Development of Capitaism in Russia, The "The Mission of Capitalism" (1899)
-- Lenin, The Development of Capitaism in Russia, The "The Mission of Capitalism" (1899)
January 10, 2026 at 6:20 PM
If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.
-- Lenin, The Development of Capitaism in Russia, The "The Mission of Capitalism" (1899)
-- Lenin, The Development of Capitaism in Russia, The "The Mission of Capitalism" (1899)
Human anatomy contains a key to the anatomy of the ape.
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
January 10, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Human anatomy contains a key to the anatomy of the ape.
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
-- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)
To work, everybody to work, the cause of the world socialist revolution must and will triumph.
-- VI Lenin, Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? (1917)
-- VI Lenin, Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? (1917)
January 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM
To work, everybody to work, the cause of the world socialist revolution must and will triumph.
-- VI Lenin, Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? (1917)
-- VI Lenin, Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? (1917)
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
-- Marx, Doctoral Thesis, Chapter 1 (1841)
-- Marx, Doctoral Thesis, Chapter 1 (1841)
January 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
-- Marx, Doctoral Thesis, Chapter 1 (1841)
-- Marx, Doctoral Thesis, Chapter 1 (1841)
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
-- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)
-- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)
January 8, 2026 at 6:20 PM
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
-- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)
-- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)
When the masses are digesting a new and exceptionally rich experience of direct revolutionary struggle, the theoretical struggle for a revolutionary outlook, i.e., for revolutionary Marxism, becomes the watchword of the day.
-- Lenin, Two Letters (1908)
-- Lenin, Two Letters (1908)
January 8, 2026 at 1:20 AM
When the masses are digesting a new and exceptionally rich experience of direct revolutionary struggle, the theoretical struggle for a revolutionary outlook, i.e., for revolutionary Marxism, becomes the watchword of the day.
-- Lenin, Two Letters (1908)
-- Lenin, Two Letters (1908)
It is the duty of the revolution to put an end to compromise, and to put an end to compromise means taking the path of socialist revolution.
-- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)
-- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
It is the duty of the revolution to put an end to compromise, and to put an end to compromise means taking the path of socialist revolution.
-- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)
-- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)
The price or money-form of commodities is, like their form of value generally, a form quite distinct from their palpable bodily form; it is, therefore, a purely ideal or mental form
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)
January 7, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The price or money-form of commodities is, like their form of value generally, a form quite distinct from their palpable bodily form; it is, therefore, a purely ideal or mental form
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)
Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
January 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.
-- "Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys" (March and April 1941), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 12.
-- "Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys" (March and April 1941), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 12.
January 6, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.
-- "Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys" (March and April 1941), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 12.
-- "Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys" (March and April 1941), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 12.
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
January 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
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Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)
January 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)
-- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)
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Written over 100 years ago, the lesson is still being learned to this day.
It is more relevant today than it was when it was originally written.
Read for free: www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
It is more relevant today than it was when it was originally written.
Read for free: www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
January 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Written over 100 years ago, the lesson is still being learned to this day.
It is more relevant today than it was when it was originally written.
Read for free: www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
It is more relevant today than it was when it was originally written.
Read for free: www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
Art must make its own way and by its own means. The Marxian methods are not the same as the artistic. The party leads the proletariat but not the historic processes of history.
-- Trotsky, Communist Policy Toward Art (1923)
-- Trotsky, Communist Policy Toward Art (1923)
January 4, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Art must make its own way and by its own means. The Marxian methods are not the same as the artistic. The party leads the proletariat but not the historic processes of history.
-- Trotsky, Communist Policy Toward Art (1923)
-- Trotsky, Communist Policy Toward Art (1923)
In all mass movements we must make a basic investigation and analysis of the number of active supporters, opponents and neutrals and must not decide problems subjectively and without basis.
-- "Methods of Work of Party Committees" (March 13, 1949), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 380.
-- "Methods of Work of Party Committees" (March 13, 1949), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 380.
January 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
In all mass movements we must make a basic investigation and analysis of the number of active supporters, opponents and neutrals and must not decide problems subjectively and without basis.
-- "Methods of Work of Party Committees" (March 13, 1949), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 380.
-- "Methods of Work of Party Committees" (March 13, 1949), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 380.
By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists.
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
January 3, 2026 at 1:20 AM
By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists.
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)