[Zhukov] A modern soldier's greatest fear, it's not death, it's not starvation, it's chafing!
[Khrushchev, interjecting] ...And then he planted the flag in Hitler's bunker or he knocked the bear out with one punch.
[Zhukov] ...It was Goebbels's bunker, not Hitler's!
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[Zhukov] A modern soldier’s greatest fear, it’s not death, it’s not starvation, it’s chafing!
Truly a warrior poet. Chafing sucks.
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Always thought this line from the manifesto was banger
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
This one in particular is good if the person you're speaking to is religious. I used a simplified version to explain my disgust for Saudi Arabia very quickly, and in particular what they have done in Mecca with all their grand luxury hotels around the Kabaah.
Not from a communist, but wonderfully captures alienation in commodity production and the inescapable ethical reality of consumption:
“For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale
We're coming for that toothbrush.
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
-Julius Nyerere
God will not forgive us if we fail. - Leonid Brezhnev
Easy way to remember how to spell "bourgeoisie":
1: type "bourg" because that's the easy part to remember.
2: type a bunch of vowels at random and chuck an "s" in there somewhere.
3: auto-correct should be able to guess it at this point.
- Existential Comics
https://nitter.net/existentialcoms/status/1362809982664671232?t=GzpVos_UEkq0HIKLiWpNzA&s=19
Capitalism more like crapitalism amirite
“You will be shot” -Lenin
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.
Not communist per se, but I like this quote which I think is from Lula:
Those in power can kill one, two, or three roses, but they will never be able to stop the coming of spring
Oh and the Chad from that vice documentary:
The kind Vladimir Ilyich would've shot everybody here.
“give me that fucking infant”
-me
“Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free people will walk to build a better society.” ~ Salvador Allende
“'Where is imperialism?” Look at your plates when you eat. These imported grains of rice, corn, and millet – that is imperialism.”
Thomas Sankara.