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

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

-Lenin, State and Revolution

"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."

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.

"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:

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

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.

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

Thomas Sankara.

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

"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:

"‘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.

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

Death to America

“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

You Yankee fucks missed again

Fidel Castro, probably

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)

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

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.

“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

a fascist jerked off today, did you?

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

"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

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.

• Existential Comics

https://nitter.net/existentialcoms/status/1362809982664671232?t=GzpVos_UEkq0HIKLiWpNzA&s=19

she's electable if you fucking vote for her

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

“You will be shot” -Lenin

Capitalism more like crapitalism amirite