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What are some of your favourite communist one-liners?

"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

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  • 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.

  • “'Where is imperialism?” Look at your plates when you eat. These imported grains of rice, corn, and millet – that is imperialism.”

    Thomas Sankara.

  • "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:

  • "‘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.

  • "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.

  • “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

  • “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

  • The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

    -Julius Nyerere

  • "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

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