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.

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God will not forgive us if we fail. - Leonid Brezhnev

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

Thomas Sankara.

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

“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

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

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the “experience of revolution” than to write about it.

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

Capitalism more like crapitalism amirite

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

- @wombat

“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.

We’re coming for that toothbrush.

“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:

“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

“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