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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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[–] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Bitch, you are a serf. We're in- we're in fucking 1320, motherfucker. You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace.

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[–] JosipBRUHTito@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"It takes a good guy with a state to stop a bad guy with a state"

-Lenin, State and Revolution

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I posted this one on Facebook once and it got flagged as misinformation

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

Please pick up your dysynformatziya check at 112 Red Square, Moscow

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

Technically correct, the worst kind of correct.

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

"Mom said it's my turn on the state apparatus" - V. I. Lenin

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

Stalin vs. Trotsky, the baby years

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

lmao a long time ago I drunkenly summed up state and rev as "the only thing that can stop a bad class with a state is a good class with a state"

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

"I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood. I had... vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done."

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

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; – but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present! I am in earnest – I will not equivocate I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.

William Lloyd Garrison, in the introduction to the first issue of the abolitionist paper The Liberator

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

Socialism or barbarism.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen Jay Gould

Poor countries aren't underdeveloped, they are overexploited. Parenti.

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

"Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Nazis are harmless. Therefore when I kill a Nazi I'm saving lives."

-:pavlichenko:

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

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (6 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.

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

“'Where is imperialism?” Look at your plates when you eat. These imported grains of rice, corn, and millet – that is imperialism.”

Thomas Sankara.

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

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

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

"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings"

"A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a point, one can only fight fire with fire"

"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind"

All from Nelson Mandela :mandela:

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

"‘Who, except hopeless bureaucrats, can rely on written documents alone? Who, except archive rats, does not understand that a party and its leaders must be tested primarily by their deeds . . . Lenin taught us to test revolutionary parties, trends and leaders not by their declarations and resolutions, but by their deeds.’"

Stalin.

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

"there are no liberators. the people liberate themselves" - che, iirc

Death to America

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

“Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free people will walk to build a better society.” ~ Salvador Allende

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

You Yankee fucks missed again

Fidel Castro, probably

[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why don't you live for the people? Why don't you struggle for the people? Why don't you die for the people? - Fred Hampton

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution - Fred Hampton

Dare to struggle! Dare to win! - Mao

We must dare to invent the future - Thomas Sankara

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I am changing the things I cannot accept - Angela Davis

Sometimes, history needs a push - Lenin

I believe in only one thing, the power of human will - Stalin

We are nothing, Let us be everything! - Pierre De Geyter (the Internationale)

[–] ImaProfessional1@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dead-ass, this is my religion:

I believe in only one thing, the power of human will - Stalin

-I had never seen this before, nor knew Stalin said it. Aww, Papa Joe, come back… please?

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

:chad-stalin:

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

God will not forgive us if we fail. - Leonid Brezhnev

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

Not communist per se, but I like this quote which I think is from Lula:

Those in power can kill one, two, or three roses, but they will never be able to stop the coming of spring

Oh and the Chad from that vice documentary:

The kind Vladimir Ilyich would've shot everybody here.

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

“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of history will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.” -Stalin

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

a fascist jerked off today, did you?

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

Not from a communist, but wonderfully captures alienation in commodity production and the inescapable ethical reality of consumption:

“For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

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

"While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." -Eugene V. Debs

"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality." -Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

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

Easy way to remember how to spell "bourgeoisie":

1: type "bourg" because that's the easy part to remember.

2: type a bunch of vowels at random and chuck an "s" in there somewhere.

3: auto-correct should be able to guess it at this point.

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

she's electable if you fucking vote for her

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

Every cancer is a homicide, every boss better run and hide - :boots-riley:

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

“You will be shot” -Lenin

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

Capitalism more like crapitalism amirite

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