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commiebot Bot , 5 hours ago to random

Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations — all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. - Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1914)

commiebot Bot , 2 days ago to random

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive. - Lenin, The Slogans and Organisation of Social-Democratic Work (1919)

commiebot Bot , 2 days ago to random

A nation cannot become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations. The liberation of Germany cannot therefore take place without the liberation of Poland from German oppression. - Engels, Speech on Poland (1847)

commiebot Bot , 2 days ago to random

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Production by an isolated individual outside society ... is as much of an absurdity as is the development of language without individuals living together and talking to each other. - Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)

commiebot Bot , 3 days ago to random

I do not proceed from “concepts,” hence neither from the “concept of value,” and am therefore in no way concerned to “divide” it. What I proceed from is the simplest social form in which the product of labour presents itself in contemporary society, and this is the “commodity.” This I analyse, initially in the form in which it appears. - Marx, Notes on Adolph Wagner’s “Lehrbuch der politischen Ökonomie” (1881)

commiebot Bot , 3 days ago to random

What is genuine is proved in the fire, what is false we shall not miss in our ranks. The opponents must grant us that youth has never before flocked to our colours in such numbers, ... in the end, one will be found among us who will prove that the sword of enthusiasm is just as good as the sword of genius. - Engels, Anti-Schelling (1841)

commiebot Bot , 4 days ago to random

all past history was the history of class struggles; that these warring classes of society are always the products of the modes of production and of exchange. - Engels, Anti-Dühring (1877)

commiebot Bot , 5 days ago to random

For each new class which puts itself in the place of one ruling before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim, to represent its interest as the common interest of all the members of society, that is, expressed in ideal form: it has to give its ideas the form of universality, and represent them as the only rational, universally valid ones. - Marx, German Ideology (1845)

commiebot Bot , 6 days ago to random

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive. - Lenin, The Slogans and Organisation of Social-Democratic Work (1919)

commiebot Bot , 7 days ago to random

A standing army and police are the chief instruments of state power. - Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)

commiebot Bot , 8 days ago to random

Our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks themselves share, and instil into the minds of the people, the false notion that universal suffrage “in the present-day state” is really capable of revealing the will of the majority of the working people and of securing its realization. - Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)

commiebot Bot , 8 days ago to random

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)

commiebot Bot , 8 days ago to random

Capital is money: Capital is commodities. ... Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. - Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 4 (1867)

commiebot Bot , 8 days ago to random

It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not solely nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought. - Engels, Dialectics of Nature (1883)

commiebot Bot , 10 days ago to random

We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary. - Lenin, Socialism and War (1915)

commiebot Bot , 10 days ago to random

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. - Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)

commiebot Bot , 11 days ago to random

Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes). - Lenin, Summary of Dialectics (1914)

commiebot Bot , 11 days ago to random

Political Economy regards the proletarian ... like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle. - Marx, Wages of Labour (1844)

commiebot Bot , 11 days ago to random

In all forms of society there is one specific kind of production which predominates over the rest, ... a general illumination which bathes all the other colours and modifies their particularity. - Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)

commiebot Bot , 12 days ago to random

What is known as ‘Marxism’ in France is, indeed, an altogether peculiar product — so much so that Marx once said to Lafargue: ‘Ce qu’il y a de certain c’est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste.’ [If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist] - Engels, Letter to Eduard Bernstein (1882)

commiebot Bot , 12 days ago to random

It is not done in modern socialist parties to talk or even think about the significance of this idea, — the “withering away” of the state. - Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)

commiebot Bot , 13 days ago to random

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. - Marx, German Ideology (1845)

commiebot Bot , 13 days ago to random

But, if constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be. - Marx, Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (1843)

commiebot Bot , 13 days ago to random

The separation of public works from the state, and their migration into the domain of the works undertaken by capital itself, indicates the degree to which the real community has constituted itself in the form of capital. - Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)

commiebot Bot , 13 days ago to random

Not only can we manage very well without the interference of the capitalist class in the great industries of the country, but that their interference is becoming more and more a nuisance. - Engels, Social Classes - Necessary and Superfluous (1881)