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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Without an alliance with non-Communists in the most diverse spheres of activity there can be no question of any successful communist construction.
-- Lenin, The Significance of Militant Materialism (1922)
-- Lenin, The Significance of Militant Materialism (1922)
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Without an alliance with non-Communists in the most diverse spheres of activity there can be no question of any successful communist construction.
-- Lenin, The Significance of Militant Materialism (1922)
-- Lenin, The Significance of Militant Materialism (1922)
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
-- Lenin, Letter to the Congress (1922)
-- Lenin, Letter to the Congress (1922)
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
-- Lenin, Letter to the Congress (1922)
-- Lenin, Letter to the Congress (1922)
This army has an indomitable spirit and is determined to vanquish all enemies and never to yield. No matter what the difficulties and hardships, so long as a single man remains, he will fight on.
-- "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 264.
-- "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 264.
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This army has an indomitable spirit and is determined to vanquish all enemies and never to yield. No matter what the difficulties and hardships, so long as a single man remains, he will fight on.
-- "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 264.
-- "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 264.
History is the judge - its executioner, the proletarian.
-- Marx, Speech at Anniversary of The People's Paper (1856)
-- Marx, Speech at Anniversary of The People's Paper (1856)
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
History is the judge - its executioner, the proletarian.
-- Marx, Speech at Anniversary of The People's Paper (1856)
-- Marx, Speech at Anniversary of The People's Paper (1856)
There are no underdeveloped nations, just over-exploited ones
-- Michael Parenti
-- Michael Parenti
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
There are no underdeveloped nations, just over-exploited ones
-- Michael Parenti
-- Michael Parenti
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women
-- Thomas Sankara
-- Thomas Sankara
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women
-- Thomas Sankara
-- Thomas Sankara
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Experience has proved that, on certain very important questions of the proletarian revolution, all countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Experience has proved that, on certain very important questions of the proletarian revolution, all countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
Marx's economic doctrine is the most profound, comprehensive and detailed confirmation and application of his theory.
-- V.I. Lenin, The Marxist Doctrine in Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism (1914)
-- V.I. Lenin, The Marxist Doctrine in Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism (1914)
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Marx's economic doctrine is the most profound, comprehensive and detailed confirmation and application of his theory.
-- V.I. Lenin, The Marxist Doctrine in Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism (1914)
-- V.I. Lenin, The Marxist Doctrine in Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism (1914)
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
-- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
-- Engels, Outlines of Political Economy (1844)
-- Engels, Outlines of Political Economy (1844)
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
-- Engels, Outlines of Political Economy (1844)
-- Engels, Outlines of Political Economy (1844)
...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.
-- Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, On Communist Ethics (1924)
-- Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, On Communist Ethics (1924)
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.
-- Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, On Communist Ethics (1924)
-- Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, On Communist Ethics (1924)
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Question everything, accept nothing.
-- Quoted by Ethan Skyler; used in 2002 in reference to Galileo, para 9 [1]
-- Quoted by Ethan Skyler; used in 2002 in reference to Galileo, para 9 [1]
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Question everything, accept nothing.
-- Quoted by Ethan Skyler; used in 2002 in reference to Galileo, para 9 [1]
-- Quoted by Ethan Skyler; used in 2002 in reference to Galileo, para 9 [1]
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.
-- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)
-- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.
-- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)
-- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Without such thorough, circumspect and long preparations [since 1903], we could not have achieved victory in October 1917, or have consolidated that victory.
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Without such thorough, circumspect and long preparations [since 1903], we could not have achieved victory in October 1917, or have consolidated that victory.
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
-- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.
-- Mao Zedong On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957). 1st pocket ed., pp. 1-2.
-- Mao Zedong On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957). 1st pocket ed., pp. 1-2.
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.
-- Mao Zedong On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957). 1st pocket ed., pp. 1-2.
-- Mao Zedong On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957). 1st pocket ed., pp. 1-2.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Policy and tactics are the life of the Party; leading comrades at all levels must give them full attention and must never on any account be negligent.
-- "A Circular on the Situation" (March 20, 1948), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 220.
-- "A Circular on the Situation" (March 20, 1948), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 220.
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Policy and tactics are the life of the Party; leading comrades at all levels must give them full attention and must never on any account be negligent.
-- "A Circular on the Situation" (March 20, 1948), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 220.
-- "A Circular on the Situation" (March 20, 1948), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 220.
All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy.
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy.
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
-- Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism, " but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
-- Lenin, Letter to Inessa Armand (1916)
-- Lenin, Letter to Inessa Armand (1916)
November 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism, " but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
-- Lenin, Letter to Inessa Armand (1916)
-- Lenin, Letter to Inessa Armand (1916)