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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
the great mass of the French nation is formed by the simple addition of homologous magnitudes, much as potatoes in a sack form a sack of potatoes.
-- Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
-- Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
the great mass of the French nation is formed by the simple addition of homologous magnitudes, much as potatoes in a sack form a sack of potatoes.
-- Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
-- Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality, they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are powerful.
-- Mao Zedong, Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong (1946)
-- Mao Zedong, Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong (1946)
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality, they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are powerful.
-- Mao Zedong, Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong (1946)
-- Mao Zedong, Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong (1946)
That today, when the wave has ebbed, there remain and will remain only real Marxists, does not frighten us but rejoices us.
-- Lenin, Two Letters (1908)
-- Lenin, Two Letters (1908)
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
That today, when the wave has ebbed, there remain and will remain only real Marxists, does not frighten us but rejoices us.
-- Lenin, Two Letters (1908)
-- Lenin, Two Letters (1908)
The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.
-- Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (1847)
-- Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (1847)
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.
-- Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (1847)
-- Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (1847)
The entire movement of history, as simply communism's actual act of genesis - the birth act of its empirical existence - is, therefore, for its thinking consciousness the comprehended and known process of its becoming.
-- Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)
-- Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The entire movement of history, as simply communism's actual act of genesis - the birth act of its empirical existence - is, therefore, for its thinking consciousness the comprehended and known process of its becoming.
-- Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)
-- Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)
The British monarchy, hypocritical British conservatism, religiosity, servility, sanctimoniousness all this is old rags, rubbish, the refuse of centuries which we have no need for whatsoever.
-- Trotsky, Through What Stage Are We Passing? (1921)
-- Trotsky, Through What Stage Are We Passing? (1921)
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The British monarchy, hypocritical British conservatism, religiosity, servility, sanctimoniousness all this is old rags, rubbish, the refuse of centuries which we have no need for whatsoever.
-- Trotsky, Through What Stage Are We Passing? (1921)
-- Trotsky, Through What Stage Are We Passing? (1921)
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
-- "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 257.
-- "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 257.
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
-- "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 257.
-- "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 257.
the prime factors in the question of stability are such members of the C.C. as Stalin and Trotsky. I think relations between them make up the greater part of the danger of a split.
-- Lenin, Letter to the Congress (1922)
-- Lenin, Letter to the Congress (1922)
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
the prime factors in the question of stability are such members of the C.C. as Stalin and Trotsky. I think relations between them make up the greater part of the danger of a split.
-- Lenin, Letter to the Congress (1922)
-- Lenin, Letter to the Congress (1922)
It is untrue that revolutionary art can be created only by workers. Just because the revolution is a working-class revolution, it releases - to repeat what was said before - very little working-class energy for art.
-- Trotsky, Communist Policy Toward Art (1923)
-- Trotsky, Communist Policy Toward Art (1923)
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It is untrue that revolutionary art can be created only by workers. Just because the revolution is a working-class revolution, it releases - to repeat what was said before - very little working-class energy for art.
-- Trotsky, Communist Policy Toward Art (1923)
-- Trotsky, Communist Policy Toward Art (1923)
If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get
-- Bill Haywood
-- Bill Haywood
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get
-- Bill Haywood
-- Bill Haywood
It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.
-- Peter Kropotkin
-- Peter Kropotkin
Every Communist must grasp the truth; "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
-- "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.
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Every Communist must grasp the truth; "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
-- "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.
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
-- Karl Marx, Capital Vol. III Chapter 48 (1883)
-- Karl Marx, Capital Vol. III Chapter 48 (1883)
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
-- Karl Marx, Capital Vol. III Chapter 48 (1883)
-- Karl Marx, Capital Vol. III Chapter 48 (1883)
It is not our immediate task to "introduce" socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers' Deputies.
-- Lenin, April Theses (1917)
-- Lenin, April Theses (1917)
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It is not our immediate task to "introduce" socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers' Deputies.
-- Lenin, April Theses (1917)
-- Lenin, April Theses (1917)
The History of the World travels from East to West, for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the beginning.
-- Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1831)
-- Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1831)
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The History of the World travels from East to West, for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the beginning.
-- Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1831)
-- Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1831)
Two types of social contradictions - those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people themselves confront us. The two are totally different in their nature.
-- Mao Zedong On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), first pocket ed.. p. 2.
-- Mao Zedong On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), first pocket ed.. p. 2.
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Two types of social contradictions - those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people themselves confront us. The two are totally different in their nature.
-- Mao Zedong On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), first pocket ed.. p. 2.
-- Mao Zedong On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), first pocket ed.. p. 2.
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
-- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848)
-- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848)
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
-- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848)
-- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848)
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
-- Engels, Anti-Dühring (1877)
-- Engels, Anti-Dühring (1877)
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
-- Engels, Anti-Dühring (1877)
-- Engels, Anti-Dühring (1877)
The masses must have their own staunch vanguard which, for its part, must maintain close ties with the widest possible section of the masses. Only thus will the emancipation of the people be possible.
-- Liu Shaoqi, On the Party (1945)
-- Liu Shaoqi, On the Party (1945)
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The masses must have their own staunch vanguard which, for its part, must maintain close ties with the widest possible section of the masses. Only thus will the emancipation of the people be possible.
-- Liu Shaoqi, On the Party (1945)
-- Liu Shaoqi, On the Party (1945)
Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.
-- "Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art" (May 1942), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 70.
-- "Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art" (May 1942), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 70.
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.
-- "Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art" (May 1942), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 70.
-- "Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art" (May 1942), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 70.
On the 3rd of April Lenin arrived in Petrograd from abroad. Only from that moment does the Bolshevik Party begin to speak out loud, and, what is more important, with its own voice.
-- Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Chapter 15 (1930)
-- Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Chapter 15 (1930)
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On the 3rd of April Lenin arrived in Petrograd from abroad. Only from that moment does the Bolshevik Party begin to speak out loud, and, what is more important, with its own voice.
-- Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Chapter 15 (1930)
-- Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Chapter 15 (1930)
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)