“A guilty system recognizes no innocents.”
Iain M Banks
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
Every Communist must grasp the truth, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
not anti-capitalist but truth nonetheless, might makes right.
You’re putting bicycle wheels on a truck, if that metaphor makes sense.
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” is not the same as “might makes right” although they can be seen as similar.
Might makes right is the justification of victory, of opposition or the lack there of. It’s the language of colonizers, that if someone was a victim, they should have just been strong enough to resist. That, by virtue of victory, the victor is correct. It’s a cyclical argument, the law of the jungle.
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” is less about what makes something right or wrong, and more simply about the facts. Communists aren’t right because they defeat capitalism through revolutionary violence, but revolutionary violence is still necessary.
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our time comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
“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 last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.” - Unknown.
‘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
Mine is:
They got money for war, but can’t feed the poor.
Tupac Shakur
