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

-Lenin, State and Revolution

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

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

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.

Always thought this line from the manifesto was banger

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

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

"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:

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.

“give me that fucking infant”

-me

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

Thomas Sankara.

Hack up Joe Manchin with a machete

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"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:

What was the :citations-needed: quote about the atomic unit of propaganda?

we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror

- @wombat

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)

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

Death to America

she's electable if you fucking vote for her

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

If you don't steal from your boss, you're stealing from your family.

You Yankee fucks missed again

Fidel Castro, probably

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” – Lenin.

We're coming for that toothbrush.

"‘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.

“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

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.

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

a fascist jerked off today, did you?

“You will be shot” -Lenin

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.

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

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

"The so-called crisis of homelessness has not abated, and it can’t. So, therefore, has my sense of rage not abated, and it can’t." - Don Mitchell, Mean Streets: Homelessness, public space, and the limits of capital. Definitely one of my favorite books I've read in the last couple years.

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist." - Dom Helder Camara. Pretty sure he wasn't actually a lefty but this is still good.

Hunger is hunger; but the hunger that is satisfied by cooked meat eaten with a knife and fork differs from hunger that devours raw meat with the help of hands, nails and teeth. - Karl Marx.

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"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."

“A man is not killed when his heart is struck by a bullet; he is killed when he is cancelled.” - Joseph Stalin

“A woke peasant can harvest plenty of soy.” - Ho Chi Minh

“Many men wish death upon me. Lord, I don't cry no more; I don't look to the sky no more. Have mercy on me.” - Fidel Castro

Capitalism more like crapitalism amirite

[Zhukov] A modern soldier's greatest fear, it's not death, it's not starvation, it's chafing!

[Khrushchev, interjecting] ...And then he planted the flag in Hitler's bunker or he knocked the bear out with one punch.

[Zhukov] ...It was Goebbels's bunker, not Hitler's!

“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

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” Che

No altar, no belief, no holy book, neither the Qur’an nor the Bible nor the others, have ever been able to reconcile the rich and the poor, the exploiter and the exploited. And if Jesus himself had to take the whip to chase them from his temple, it is indeed because that is the only language they hear.” Thomas Sankara

all oppressed people have a right to violence - Lizzy Borden

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

-Julius Nyerere

"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