"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.

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)

Hack up Joe Manchin with a machete

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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.

a fascist jerked off today, did you?

"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:

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

Death to America

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

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

You Yankee fucks missed again

Fidel Castro, probably

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.

"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

all oppressed people have a right to violence - Lizzy Borden

"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.

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

"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:

Who has been saved by the united states?

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

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

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

"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

“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

she's electable if you fucking vote for her

“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

"‘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.

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

- @wombat