Any Cool Leftist Quotes?

[GodLike1001]

Looking for some inspirational quotes from books, speeches, essays...

any favourites?

[Sam_b]

Yes, lots.

[Sam_b]

Sorry, couldn't resist. Anyway...

One of my favourite Tony Cliff quotes:

The spontaneous revolution, in smashing the iron heel of the Stalinist bureaucracy, will open the field for the free activity of all the parties, tendencies and groups in the working class. It will be the first chapter in the victorious proletarian revolution. The final chapter can be written only by the masses – self-mobilised, conscious of socialist aims and the methods of their achievement, and led by a revolutionary Marxist party.

[Pavlov's House Party]

one of my favorites:

The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight... That's exactly what is laudable about it, that's exactly why this colossal piece of culture, within the modern workers' movement, is epoch-defining: that the great masses of the working people first forge from their own consciousness, from their own belief, and even from their own understanding the weapons of their own liberation.
-Rosa Luxemburg

[DaComm]

V.I. Lenin

"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permitts, then we shall not see Socialism for at least 500 years."

[Nwoye]

"We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom." - Not actually sure who said that but it comes up in lots of works associated with the Situationist International

also, "Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs." - Guy Debord.

[ContrarianLemming]

"coo"

meaning "cool", useful in all situations.

oh left wing..uhm "new world in our hearts" stuff..

RISE LIKE LIONS FROM SLUMBER
IN INVANQUISHABLE NUMBER
SHAKE YOUR CHAINS TO EARTH LIKE DEW
WHICH IN SLEEP HAD FALLEN ON YOU
WE ARE MANY - THEY ARE FEW

[Nolan]

"Anarchists are so goth."

- Me.

[Os Cangaceiros]

"make total destroy!"

[Urko]

Anarchists are so goth.

make total destroy!

hehe, funny

[ZeroNowhere]

We already have one of these threads (http://www.revleft.com/vb/great-quotes-words-t84668/index.html?t=84668).

[mikelepore]

V.I. Lenin

"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permitts, then we shall not see Socialism for at least 500 years."

Any idea where that's from? I found three separate writings where John Reed quoted Lenin as saying that, but I couldn't find it in Lenin.

[DaComm]

Any idea where that's from? I found three separate writings where John Reed quoted Lenin as saying that, but I couldn't find it in Lenin.


A while ago I recall having known from what context it was from. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find the source either. My best conjecture is that it was stated in What is to be done?

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/graffiti.htm

[Il Medico]

I like this one, though I don't think this is the first time I've heard it.
"In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure
the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society."

In fact, I think I'll sig it.

[Nwoye]

I like this one, though I don't think this is the first time I've heard it.
"In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure
the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society."

In fact, I think I'll sig it.

I'm pretty sure that's a motto of Crimethinc.

[Blackscare]

I'm pretty sure that's a motto of Crimethinc.


Eeeeewwwww

-me (in relation to crimethinc)

[Il Medico]

I'm pretty sure that's a motto of Crimethinc.
*shrugs* don't care, still like the quote. And I found it in the list of 1968 graffiti above.

[praxis1966]

Onto street!!!!