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Quotes are stolen from marxists.org. Currently includes quotes from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Mao.
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Quotes are stolen from marxists.org. Currently includes quotes from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Mao.
Errors? Suggestions? Let me know.
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Some thoughts: rn the bot posts a random quote from a list of 109. At 2 posts/day, duplicates will happen soon. If I find time, I’ll make it avoid repeats and expand the list (real sausage party rn). If I don’t find time, I’ll probably shut it off in a week or so.
"Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1913
📚: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1913
📚: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
January 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1913
📚: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1913
📚: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
"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."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14
January 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"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."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: State and Revolution
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: State and Revolution
January 28, 2026 at 2:00 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."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: State and Revolution
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: State and Revolution
"Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1915
📚: Socialism and War
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1915
📚: Socialism and War
January 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1915
📚: Socialism and War
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1915
📚: Socialism and War
"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."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1921
📚: Through What Stage Are We Passing?
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1921
📚: Through What Stage Are We Passing?
January 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"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."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1921
📚: Through What Stage Are We Passing?
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1921
📚: Through What Stage Are We Passing?
"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."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1867
📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1867
📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3
January 27, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"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."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1867
📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1867
📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3
"We must display determination, endurance, firmness and unanimity. We must stop at nothing. Everybody and everything must be used to save the rule of the workers and peasants, to save communism."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1920
📚: Speech to Third All-Russia Congress of Textile Workers
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1920
📚: Speech to Third All-Russia Congress of Textile Workers
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"We must display determination, endurance, firmness and unanimity. We must stop at nothing. Everybody and everything must be used to save the rule of the workers and peasants, to save communism."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1920
📚: Speech to Third All-Russia Congress of Textile Workers
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1920
📚: Speech to Third All-Russia Congress of Textile Workers
"Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, ie of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1867
📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter One
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1867
📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter One
January 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, ie of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1867
📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter One
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1867
📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter One
"In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
January 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
"The stubborn, doltish, and insensate rejection by the Communist Party of the policies of the united front provides the Social Democracy, under the present conditions, with its most important political weapon."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1932
📚: Bureaucratic Ultimatism
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1932
📚: Bureaucratic Ultimatism
January 25, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"The stubborn, doltish, and insensate rejection by the Communist Party of the policies of the united front provides the Social Democracy, under the present conditions, with its most important political weapon."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1932
📚: Bureaucratic Ultimatism
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1932
📚: Bureaucratic Ultimatism
"The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1920
📚: Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1920
📚: Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1920
📚: Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1920
📚: Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
"A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism."
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
January 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism."
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
"Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1923
📚: The Struggle for Cultured Speech
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1923
📚: The Struggle for Cultured Speech
January 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1923
📚: The Struggle for Cultured Speech
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1923
📚: The Struggle for Cultured Speech
"If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?"
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
January 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?"
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
"In general it is always empirical businessmen we are talking about when we refer to political economists, (who represent) their scientific creed and form of existence."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1844
📚: Human Requirements and Division of Labour
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1844
📚: Human Requirements and Division of Labour
January 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"In general it is always empirical businessmen we are talking about when we refer to political economists, (who represent) their scientific creed and form of existence."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1844
📚: Human Requirements and Division of Labour
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1844
📚: Human Requirements and Division of Labour
"This struggle must be organised, according to “all the rules of the art”, by people who are professionally engaged in revolutionary activity."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
January 22, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"This struggle must be organised, according to “all the rules of the art”, by people who are professionally engaged in revolutionary activity."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
"“Guerrillaism” was the military expression of the peasant background of the revolution."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1923
📚: Preface to the Military Writings
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1923
📚: Preface to the Military Writings
January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"“Guerrillaism” was the military expression of the peasant background of the revolution."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1923
📚: Preface to the Military Writings
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1923
📚: Preface to the Military Writings
"Without a People's army, the people have nothing."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1945
📚: Selected Works, Vol. III
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1945
📚: Selected Works, Vol. III
January 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"Without a People's army, the people have nothing."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1945
📚: Selected Works, Vol. III
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1945
📚: Selected Works, Vol. III
"Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: April Theses
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: April Theses
January 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: April Theses
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: April Theses
"All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned ..."
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned ..."
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto
"Our duty is to hold ourselves responsible to the people. Every word, every act and every policy must conform to the people's interests, and if mistakes occur, they must be corrected - that is what being responsible to the people means."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1945
📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1945
📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"Our duty is to hold ourselves responsible to the people. Every word, every act and every policy must conform to the people's interests, and if mistakes occur, they must be corrected - that is what being responsible to the people means."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1945
📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1945
📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV
"It is particularly necessary to arouse in all who participate in practical work, or are preparing to take up that work, discontent with the amateurism prevailing among us and an unshakable determination to rid ourselves of it."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
January 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"It is particularly necessary to arouse in all who participate in practical work, or are preparing to take up that work, discontent with the amateurism prevailing among us and an unshakable determination to rid ourselves of it."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1901
📚: What Is To Be Done?
"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1841
📚: Doctoral Thesis, Chapter 1
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1841
📚: Doctoral Thesis, Chapter 1
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1841
📚: Doctoral Thesis, Chapter 1
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1841
📚: Doctoral Thesis, Chapter 1
"We must give a scientific explanation of society, and clearly explain it to the masses. That is the difference between Marxism and reformism."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1938
📚: Discussions on the Transitional Program
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1938
📚: Discussions on the Transitional Program
January 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"We must give a scientific explanation of society, and clearly explain it to the masses. That is the difference between Marxism and reformism."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1938
📚: Discussions on the Transitional Program
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1938
📚: Discussions on the Transitional Program
"We must learn to look at problems all-sidedly, seeing the reverse as well as the obverse side of things. In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results and a good thing to bad results."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1957
📚: On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1957
📚: On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
January 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"We must learn to look at problems all-sidedly, seeing the reverse as well as the obverse side of things. In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results and a good thing to bad results."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1957
📚: On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1957
📚: On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People