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Leftist Literature Quotes

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"Religion is the opium of the people." — Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844) · #marx #religion
Quote card: "Religion is the opium of the people." — Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844).
January 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas." — Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846) · #marx #ideology
Quote card: "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas." — Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846).
January 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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"No animal shall sleep in a bed." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm
Quote card: "No animal shall sleep in a bed." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).
January 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929) · #gramsci #philosophy
Quote card: "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929).
January 18, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto
Quote card: "A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848).
January 17, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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"Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa, intended to subjugate its growth and development through foreign rules." — Thomas Sankara, Speech at the OAU Summit (1987) · #sankara #debt
Quote card: "Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa, intended to subjugate its growth and development through foreign rules." — Thomas Sankara, Speech at the OAU Summit (1987).
January 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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"No animal shall kill any other animal." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm
Quote card: "No animal shall kill any other animal." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).
January 17, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918) · #luxemburg #freedom
Quote card: "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918).
January 17, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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"The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex." — Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) · #engels #feminism
Quote card: "The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex." — Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884).
January 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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"Big Brother is watching you." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984
Quote card: "Big Brother is watching you." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).
January 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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"Four legs good, two legs bad." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm
Quote card: "Four legs good, two legs bad." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).
January 16, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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"The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) · #davis #abolition
Quote card: "The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).
January 16, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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"Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization
Quote card: "Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
January 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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"Who controls the past controls the future." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984
Quote card: "Who controls the past controls the future." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm
Quote card: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." — Mao Zedong, Problems of War and Strategy (1938) · #mao #power
Quote card: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." — Mao Zedong, Problems of War and Strategy (1938).
January 15, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984
Quote card: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965) · #che #revolution
Quote card: "The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965).
January 14, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" — Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) · #marx #gotha
Quote card: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" — Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875).
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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"Patriarchy has no gender." — bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) · #hooks #feminism
Quote card: "Patriarchy has no gender." — bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984).
January 14, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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"The state is not 'abolished,' it withers away." — Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878) · #engels #state
Quote card: "The state is not 'abolished,' it withers away." — Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878).
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto
Quote card: "Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848).
January 13, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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"We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal."…
Quote card: "We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal." — Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread (1892).
January 13, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1930) · #gramsci #crisis
Quote card: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1930).
January 13, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization
Quote card: "For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
January 12, 2026 at 6:02 PM