Marxist quotes

[Anarchocommunaltoad]

“All I know is that I am not a Marxist.” -Karl Marx

[Art Vandelay]

Pretty sure that quote isn't direct, but yeah he said something along those lines; although pretty sure you don't understand what he meant by it.

[Zukunftsmusik]

He has supposedly said it as a reaction to people he disagreed with who claimed they were marxists.

[Red Banana]

"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks"

And of course the classic "Religion is the opiate of the masses".

[GoddessCleoLover]

Et omnibus dubitum.

[Let's Get Free]

"But the working class cannot simply lay hold on the ready-made state machinery and wield it for its own purpose. The political instrument of their enslavement cannot serve as the political instrument of their emancipation."

[Vanguard1917]

Dominus illuminatio mea

[Will Scarlet]

Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives. Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture. Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers. Kill them all slowly and painfully. - Karl Marx

[Ostrinski]

I really like the one in my signature.

"We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable."

[Yuppie Grinder]

Pretty sure there's already a favorite quote thread. Anyways, "While there is a state there can be no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state." - Lenin.

[ComradeOfJoplin]

"Silence is a argument carried out by other means." -Che

[GoddessCleoLover]

"The challenge of modernity is to learn to live without illusions and to avoid becoming disillusioned." Antonio Gramsci

[Grenzer]

"L'etat, c'est moi!" -King Louis XIV Stalin

[Yuppie Grinder]

"L'etat, c'est moi!" -King Louis XIV Stalin

i always get those two confused
i've been thinking, ain't there some parallels between napolean bonaparte and stalin?

[Grenzer]

i always get those two confused
i've been thinking, ain't there some parallels between napolean bonaparte and stalin?

ask DNZ. As I understand, he's been able to combine the best of both words. Third World Caesarian Socialism.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Didn't you used to really like Third World Caesarian Socialism?

[keystone]

I think Ostrinski's above is my new favorite; had never read it before.

Here's one I always thought was profound and relevant in times like these:
"Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions breaks down before their collapse in practice." -- Karl Marx to Dr. Kugelmann, 1868

[Rafiq]

ask DNZ. As I understand, he's been able to combine the best of both words. Third World Caesarian Socialism.


Name a post where DNZ expresses support for Napoleon.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Name a post where Rafiq came off as having a sense of humor or being a reasonable, friendly guy.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

It is still necessary to suppress the bourgeoisie and crush their resistance. This was particularly necessary for the Commune; and one of the reasons for its defeat was that it did not do this with sufficient determination. The organ of suppression, however, is here the majority of the population, and not a minority, as was always the case under slavery, serfdom, and wage slavery. And since the majority of people itself suppresses its oppressors, a 'special force" for suppression is no longer necessary! In this sense, the state begins to wither away. Instead of the special institutions of a privileged minority (privileged officialdom, the chiefs of the standing army), the majority itself can directly fulfil all these functions, and the more the functions of state power are performed by the people as a whole, the less need there is for the existence of this power.


~Lenin, in the State and the Revolution

[Rafiq]

Name a post where Rafiq came off as having a sense of humor or being a reasonable, friendly guy.

I see you know me personally, then? Or is your only social life manifested on this site?

[Anarchocommunaltoad]

i see you know me personally, then? Or is your only social life manifested on this site?

burn!

[Yuppie Grinder]

I see you know me personally, then? Or is your only social life manifested on this site?

lol at u saying this to me
lol dude
just lol

[l'Enfermé]

Name a post where Rafiq came off as having a sense of humor or being a reasonable, friendly guy.
Yeah because obsessing over DNZ and posting lies about him in every single thread - even though they have nothing to do with him - you encounter is funny. It's so fucking hilarious my sides are hurting. Jackass.

[Makarov]

"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" - Fidel Castro

I find this one below is subsequently follows the one above.

"More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World" - Fidel Castro

[l'Enfermé]

"But the working class cannot simply lay hold on the ready-made state machinery and wield it for its own purpose. The political instrument of their enslavement cannot serve as the political instrument of their emancipation."
Ohh, I see what you did there. Too bad you don't understand that the whole point of that quote, when considered in context(you conveniently left out all the surrounding text) is that the working class cannot simply lay hold of a capitalist state, but has to demolish it and create a worker's state in its place.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

i always get those two confused
i've been thinking, ain't there some parallels between napolean bonaparte and stalin?

"Stalin attended a wild party given by Alyosha Svanidze. They were drinking cocktails of melon juice and brandy, and got wildly drunk. Yet Soso lay on a sofa on the verandah reading silently, making notes. So they started to look for him: “Where is he?”
“Soso’s reading,” replied Alyosha Svanidze.
“What are you reading?” his friends asked mockingly.
“Napoleon Bonaparte’s Memoirs,” Soso replied. “It’s amazing what mistakes he made. I’m making a note of them!” The intoxicated gentry had hysterics at this autodidactic cobbler’s son whom they now nicknamed the “Kunkula” (Staggerer), for his hasty and awkward gait.10 But the serious revolutionaries, such as Stalin, Lado and Prince Sasha, were not wasting their time on cocktails."
(Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore)

[Let's Get Free]

Ohh, I see what you did there. Too bad you don't understand that the whole point of that quote, when considered in context(you conveniently left out all the surrounding text) is that the working class cannot simply lay hold of a capitalist state, but has to demolish it and create a worker's state in its place.

A "workers state?" Let's not go down that disastrous road again.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

"Attempt to convince the fascist by rational argument. Should that fail, acquaint his head with the pavement" Leon Trotsky

"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts." -J.V Stalin

[hetz]

A "workers state?" Let's not go down that disastrous road again.
Which road should we go down then?