“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

  • ssjmarx [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

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

      • ssjmarx [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It’s a funny rant by Brace Belden on the TrueAnon podcast. He’s trying to get across how far away from an actual socialist revolution our society is.

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It’s a copypasta

        You are a serf. removed, you live in Alsace. You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin’ lord the grain. Your fucking children, you’ve had 15 children. You’ve never taken a bath. You’ve literally never. washed. your. penis. You’ve never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You’ve had 40 children, 3 of them are alive. 2 of them are child soldiers in the Duke’s army.

        removed, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36. You fucking can’t read. You don’t know what TV is. If you were transported into today, you would be the worst gamer of all time. You don’t know shit. You literally probably don’t even know what the direction ‘left’ is. I’m sure some Medieval guy is gonna get mad at me for this, removed I’ve been to the Renaissance Fair. I’ve eaten a large turkey wing, which the Juggalos call ‘removed beaters’, which I think is problematic but a funny thing to call them.

        Motherfucker, you gotta recognize where you are, and then you gotta get passed that. You gotta be unemotional. You can’t sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette. Your job is to crawl up the ladder, motherfucker. You live in the HOLE. You’re in the HOLE. You are a RAT. And the rat, when he’s in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole.

        You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and…

        End. This. Nightmare.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    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

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    “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.

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        DemSoc?

        You have to be very careful what you mean by socialism. When I use the word I’m not thinking about Lenin for example. I don’t have any European models in mind. Bobby Seale talks of a Yankee Doodle-type socialism. I know what he means when he says that. It is a socialism created from the indigenous need of the people in the place. So that a socialism achieved in America, if and when we do — I think you have to say when we do — will be a socialism very unlike the Chinese socialism or the Cuban socialism. . . . The price of any real socialism here is the eradication of what we call the race problem.