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What are some of your favourite communist one-liners? (hexbear.net)
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"Social Democracy objectively represents the moderate wing of Fascism." - J. V. Stalin

"Women hold up half of the sky." - Mao Zedong (though a more or less common saying attributed to many)

“Civilize the mind but make savage the body” - Mao Zedong

"Socialism or barbarism." - K. Kautsky

"Poor countries aren’t underdeveloped, they are overexploited." - Prof. Dr. M. Parenti.

"Who has been saved by the United States?" - Fidel Castro

"We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror." - Dr. K. Marx

But i also like more jokey ones ;

"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them." - Julius Nyerere

“Trotsky has sent in a silly letter. We shall neither print it nor reply to him.” - V. I. Lenin

"Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin." - unknown

"If you don’t steal from your boss, you’re stealing from your family." - unknown

"It’s [date] and Stalin saved the world from fascism" - unknown

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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Several lines, but feels particularly relevant these days. From James Baldwin:

The people who are running around throwing people in jail and ruining reputations and screaming about Communists wouldn’t know one if he fell from the ceiling. And wouldn’t care! What they are concerned about is propping up somehow the doctrine of white supremacy, so that they can seem to have given it up, but really still hold the power.

[–] HoChiMaxh@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Was he a communist? I thought he was a radlib

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

DemSoc?

You have to be very careful what you mean by socialism. When I use the word I’m not thinking about Lenin for example. I don’t have any European models in mind. Bobby Seale talks of a Yankee Doodle-type socialism. I know what he means when he says that. It is a socialism created from the indigenous need of the people in the place. So that a socialism achieved in America, if and when we do — I think you have to say when we do — will be a socialism very unlike the Chinese socialism or the Cuban socialism. . . . The price of any real socialism here is the eradication of what we call the race problem.

[–] HoChiMaxh@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Huh, TIL :sankara-salute:

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Socialism with Yankee-Doodle characteristics

[–] PasswordRememberer@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He was a based lib at the very least

Death to America

[–] HoChiMaxh@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sure, I mean radlibs aren't necessarily bad, the rad is short for radical. Nader is a radlib and he's cool af