“It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.” - I.V. Dzugashvili, Soviet Georgian philosopher and political activist.
Wait, I thought that was a Stalin quote??
That I believe is Stalin’s birth surname in russian if I’m correct. It’s a brilliant quote in my opinion.
Stalin is pseudonym. Like Lenin and Trotsky. His legal name is Iosef Dzugashvili.
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.” - Unknown.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell
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Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
Karl Marx
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.” - Lenin
I really like this one because the first step to de-liberalizing someone is to point out the source of their information and education is owned by people who would kill us all and destroy the world for higher quarterly profits.
The capitalist will sell us the rope we use to hang him with has a lot of meaning.
The Third World is not poor. You don’t go to poor countries to make money. There are very few poor countries in this world… These countries are not underdeveloped, they’re overexploited!
- Michael Parenti
“In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour time” Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 17
It’s not the most standout quote of his work. But it’s one that really solidified the concept for me.
The soul of Man under Socialism. Oscar Wilde
The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes.
‘We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.’ — Buenaventura Durruti
“A guilty system recognizes no innocents.”
Iain M Banks
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Lenin
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our time comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
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