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  1. Protestation (English) (protestation@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2019 11:31:12 EDT Protestation (English) Protestation (English)

    Noam Chomsky: The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes5/#quotenr6894

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      By Protestation from Protestation

      • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • Since 1967 it has become obvious that political Zionism has one monolithic aim: Maximum land in Palestine with a minimum of Palestinians on it. This aim is pursued with an inexcusable cruelty as demonstrated during the assault on Gaza. The cruelty is explicitly formulated in the Dahiye doctrine of the military and morally supported by the Holocaust religion. I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of “blood and soil” in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people — coerced ghettoization behind a “security wall”; the bulldozing of homes and destruction of fields; the bombing of schools, mosques, and government buildings; an economic blockade that deprives people of the water, food, medicine, education and the basic necessities for dignified survival — force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth. This century-long process of oppression means unimaginable suffering for Palestinians. (Hajo Meyer)

      • Imperialism is a specific historical stage of capitalism. Its specific character is threefold: imperialism is monopoly capitalism; parasitic, or decaying capitalism; moribund capitalism. The supplanting of free competition by monopoly is the fundamental economic feature, the quintessence of imperialism. Monopoly manifests itself in five principal forms: (1) cartels, syndicates and trusts—the concentration of production has reached a degree which gives rise to these monopolistic associations of capitalists; (2) the monopolistic position of the big banks—three, four or five giant banks manipulate the whole economic life of America, France, Germany; (3) seizure of the sources of raw material by the trusts and the financial oligarchy (finance capital is monopoly industrial capital merged with bank capital); (4) the (economic) partition of the world by the international cartels has begun. There are already over one hundred such international cartels, which command the entire world market and divide it “amicably” among themselves—until war redivides it. The export of capital, as distinct from the export of commodities under non-monopoly capitalism, is a highly characteristic phenomenon and is closely linked with the economic and territorial-political partition of the world; (5) the territorial partition of the world (colonies) is completed. (Lenin)

      • Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point the finger at any of its new instances — every day and in every part of the world. (Umberto Eco)

      • Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism — the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices — suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed. If they speak or act in an unruly way, they will be promptly stopped and punished. Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship. (Mao Zedong)

      • The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. (Clara Zetkin)

      • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down… Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man. (Edward Bernays)

      • The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. (Edward Bernays)

      • Bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and “radical” words. In times of crisis, however even well-meaning participants therein very often reveal a discrepancy between word and deed. The great and progressive significance of all crises, even the gravest, most arduous and painful, lies in the tremendous speed, force and clarity with which they expose and sweep aside rotten phrases, even if well meaning, and rotten institutions even if they are built on the best of intentions. (Lenin)

      • The workers have taken it into their heads that they, with their busy hands, are the necessary, and the rich capitalists, who do nothing, the surplus population. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein)

      • Principle of simplification and the single enemy. Adopt a single idea, a single Symbol; Individualizing the adversary into a single enemy. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • In Petrograd, here in Moscow, and in other cities and industrial centres, proletarian women showed up splendidly during the revolution. We would not have won without them, or hardly. That is my opinion. What courage they showed and how courageous they still are! (Lenin)

      • I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just ‘a mistake here and there’, but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. (Grover Furr)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of “super-revolutionary” acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. (Stalin)

      • If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell)

      • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. (Mao Zedong)

      • No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich)

      • We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. (Emmeline Pankhurst)

      • A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)

      • The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Lenin)

      • But every class struggle is a political struggle. (Karl Marx)

      • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall. (Wolfe Tone)

      • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Henry Clay)

      • To tell the truth is revolutionary. (Gramsci)

      • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard)

      • If you stop struggling, then you stop life. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. (Johann Most)

      • I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. (Howard Zinn)

      • Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. (Booker T. Washington)

      • The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. (Dario Fo)

      • Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)

      • Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited. (Lenin)

      • Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)

      • Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. (Lenin)

      • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. (John Adams)

      • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plátōn)

      • When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. (Aleida Guevara March)

      • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. (Albert Einstein)

      • A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence. (Kurt Nimmo)

      • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (Henry Louis Mencken)

      • Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. (Andrew Jackson)

      • Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Siddhārtha Gautama)

      • There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Goethe)

      • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington)

      • The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Edmund Burke)

      • War is the continuation of Politik by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz)

      • If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the “American dream”-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. (Henry Kissinger)

      • A popular method always used by the bourgeois press in every country with unerring effect is to lie, scream, raise a hullabaloo, and keep on reiterating lies on the off-chance that “something may stick”. (Lenin)

      • … the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. (Howard Zinn)

      • One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. (Michael Parenti)

      • Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. (Karl Marx)

      • In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. (Che Guevara)

      • Not even the dead can rest in peace in an oppressed country. (Fidel Castro)

      • There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. (Sir William Pitt)

      • And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state. (Lenin)

      • If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The bourgeois intellectuals, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, are true to themselves in serving capital and in continuing to use absolutely false arguments. (Lenin)

      • Aside from the few who have jobs or professions, the women of the bourgeoisie do not take part in social production. They are nothing but co-consumers of the surplus value their men extort from the proletariat. They are parasites of the parasites of the social body. And consumers are usually even more rabid and cruel in defending their “right” to a parasite’s life than the direct agents of class rule and exploitation. The history of all great revolutionary struggles confirms this in a horrible way. Take the great French Revolution. After the fall of the Jacobins, when Robespierre was driven in chains to the place of execution the naked whores of the victory-drunk bourgeoisie danced in the streets, danced a shameless dance of joy around the fallen hero of the Revolution. And in 1871, in Paris, when the heroic workers’ Commune was defeated by machine guns, the raving bourgeois females surpassed even their bestial men in their bloody revenge against the suppressed proletariat. The women of the property-owning classes will always fanatically defend the exploitation and enslavement of the working people by which they indirectly receive the means for their socially useless existence. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Won’t let anyone speak badly of Stalin. Russia, today is still living on borrowed time thanks to his vision. (Daniel Estulin)

      • The working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. (Karl Marx)

      • American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It’s harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other. (Philip Agee)

      • We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • … the United States [is] cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World. (John Stockwell)

      • A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. (Joseph Pulitzer)

      • An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. (Samuel Adams)

      • There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. (Daniel K. Inouye)

      • If they do it it’s terrorism, if we do it, it’s fighting for freedom. (Anthony Quainton)

      • It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. (Aung San Suu Kyi)

      • When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. (Ralph Nader)

      • It is only when a society shares caring values that its people can feel secure. (Michael Lerner)

      • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. (Noam Chomsky)

      • We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. (Joel Bleifuss)

      • I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. (Gore Vidal)

      • For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. (Che Guevara)

      • Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from view. She told the poor what life is about. And so now the rich have rubbed her out. (Epitaph 1919 – poem about Luxemburg after she was killed by right-wing death squads in 1919) (Bertolt Brecht)

      • You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights…Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilisation,’ when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends. But to us the reason is obvious. Theoretical differences, amongst those fighting against oppression, is a luxury which cannot be afforded. What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and as their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us. They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society. Because of this, there are many Africans who today tend to equate freedom with communism. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Kautsky has made increasingly rapid progress in this art of being a Marxist in words and a lackey of the bourgeoisie in deeds, until he has become a virtuoso at it. (Lenin)

      • A revolution not guided by a correct idea, theory and method is doomed to go off course and wander like a ship without a compass. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Stalin does not seek honours. He loathes pomp. He is averse to public displays. He could have all the nominal regalia in the chest of a great state. But he prefers the background. (Issac Don Levine)

      • I could have gone on flying through space forever. (Yuri Gagarin)

      • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero. (Voltaire)

      • In the form that it emerged at the turn of the century and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the fascist ideology represented a synthesis of organic nationalism with the antimaterialist revision of Marxism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth. (Antonio Negri)

      • To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. (Lenin)

      • We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. (Lenin)

      • They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. (Malcolm X)

      • Marxism is always moving, is always growing. It is the exact opposite of a ready-made, fixed body of dogmas as its enemies always present it. It cannot be that because it is an interpretation of the real world. The real world is always changing and moving, and therefore the theory has always to develop with the development of the real world. Marxism can never stand still. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Trotsky’s “permanent revolution” was a project of the British Empire. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. (Fidel Castro)

      • You have to make clear that it’s social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • [The] Soviet government is the expression of the most complete and most fully developed democracy. At the same time, it is the expression of the dictatorship of the working class, which secures the very possibility of democracy for the people. Soviet democracy and proletarian dictatorship are two aspects of one and the same phenomenon. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Why can the rulers of the most advanced “civilised” capitalist states offer to the people nothing but unlimited barbarism, destruction, economic chaos, spreading famine and disease, terror and slaughter? (R. Palme Dutt)

      • For all arms with which to fight must be drawn from society as it is and the fatal conditions of this struggle have the misfortune of not being easily adapted to the idealistic fantasies which these doctors in social science have exalted as divinities, under the names of Freedom, Autonomy, Anarchy. (Karl Marx)

      • And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class — consequently, it is capitalism’s main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. (Stalin)

      • The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching (plan), nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (Carroll Quigley)

      • When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. (Frédéric Bastiat)

      • When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error. The beneficiaries are the institutions whose power we so disguise. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • For it was after Stalin that the Russian state began to fall into its present state of decay. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Fascism aims at the most unbridled exploitation of the masses, but it approaches them with the most artful anti-capitalist demagogy, taking advantage of the deep hatred of the working people against the plundering bourgeoisie, the banks, trusts and financial magnates, and advancing those slogans which at the given moment are most alluring to the politically immature masses. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome! (Fidel Castro)

      • Central to all the disquisitions of the self-determination opponents is the claim that it is generally “unachievable” under capitalism or imperialism. (Lenin)

      • The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind, because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation to liberate mankind, and to ensure peace and prosperity to all. (Nelson Mandela)

      • To become the ruling class and defeat the bourgeoisie for good the proletariat must be schooled, because the skill this implies does not come ready-made. The proletariat must do its learning in the struggle, and stubborn, desperate struggle in earnest is the only meal teacher. The greater the extremes of the exploiters’ resistance, the more vigorously, firmly, ruthlessly and successfully will they be suppressed by the exploited. The more varied the exploiters’ attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination, and cut the very ground which could (and had to) breed wage-slavery, mass poverty and the profiteering and effrontery of the money-bags. (Lenin)

      • Socialism or barbarism! (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • This vagueness and ambiguity of conventional common places to describe its basic aims is not accidental in Fascism, but inherent and inevitable. This terminology is the standard vague and deceitful terminology of all capitalist parties to cover the realities of class-rule and class-exploitation under empty phrases of “the community,” “the national welfare,” “the State above classes,” etc. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of renewal. It is necessary to constantly issue new information and arguments at a rate such that when the adversary responds the public is already interested in something else. The adversary’s responses should never be able to counteract the increasing level of accusations. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The British ruling class are not fighting to liberate the people of Europe from fascism and reaction. They have always been, for a century and a-half, the main stranglers of every popular revolution in every country. The war aims of Churchill, for which the British workers; are asked to die, are the war aims of British imperialism; to protect and maintain the domination of the British Empire over a-quarter of the world; to smash the rival German imperialism and inflict a new super-Versailles; to maintain the reactionary interests of capitalist class rule against the world Socialist Revolution. There is nothing they fear more than a real popular revolution in Europe, which they know would lead to the victory of Socialism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • There can be no real and effective “freedom” in a society based on the power of money, in a society in which the masses of working people live in poverty and the handful of rich live like parasites. (Lenin)

      • Thereby I state that we are extremely interested in not letting eastern nations unite. On the contrary, we must spit them into small groups and branches. As for separate nations, we are not going to allow them to get closer and bigger, let alone allowing them to cultivate the sense of national identity and culture. Quite the contrary, we are concerned with splintering them into numerous small groups… (Heinrich Himmler)

      • If you throw a stone, it’s a crime. If a thousand stones are thrown, that’s political. If you set fire to a car it’s a crime; if a hundred cars are set on fire that’s political. (Ulrike Meinhof)

      • Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa)

      • I must add further that no programme is worthy the acceptance of the working classes that stops short of the abolition of private property in the means of production. Any other programme is misleading and dishonest… (William Morris)

      • Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press deceive the workers and the peasants are things of the distant past. Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced” countries. (Lenin)

      • I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. (Angela Davis)

  2. Protestation (English) (protestation@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 06:41:06 EDT Protestation (English) Protestation (English)

    Henry Ford: It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes6/#quotenr4455

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      By Protestation from Protestation

      • We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society. The teachings about this society are called socialism. (Lenin)

      • The similarities of the economics of the New Deal to the economics of Mussolini’s corporative state or Hitler’s totalitarian state are both close and obvious. (Norman Thomas)

      • I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. (Churchill)

      • The bourgeois court, which claimed to maintain order, but which, as a matter of fact, was a blind, subtle instrument for the ruthless suppression of the exploited, and an instrument for protecting the interests of the moneybags. (Lenin)

      • In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons […] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. (Edward Bernays)

      • In order to have more, must produce more. In order to produce more, must know more. (A. Zellinskii)

      • Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions. (Michael Parenti)

      • Trotskyism is the advanced detachment of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie. (Stalin)

      • In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons. (Hēródotos)

      • In a country ruled by an autocracy, with a completely enslaved press, in a period of desperate political reaction in which even the tiniest outgrowth of political discontent and protest is persecuted, the theory of revolutionary Marxism suddenly forced its way into the censored literature before the government realised what had happened and the unwieldy army of censors and gendarmes discovered the new enemy and flung itself upon him. (Lenin)

      • The success of scientific socialism in China is of great importance for Marxism, scientific socialism and socialism across the world. It is most fundamental for the CPC to hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics so as to realize its historic mission in the new era. (Xi Jinping)

      • Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. (Albert Einstein)

      • Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency. (Mao Zedong)

      • Dissent is the mark of freedom. (Jacob Bronowski)

      • While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, achieving at most the aims already mentioned, it is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one. (Karl Marx)

      • What is a rebel? A man who says no. (Camus)

      • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. (Bakunin)

      • If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. (Mao Zedong)

      • I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • There was a time when people of the rich nations of the world regarded poverty as a “natural condition” for those living in the poor nations of the world. … Today we have largely been stripped of this pseudo-innocence. We know that the poor are so poor because the rich are so rich, that the causes of poverty can be traced to deliberate decisions and deliberate economic and political policies designed to benefit the rich and powerful. We know that poverty and unemployment are not just accidents of history but deliberate, even indispensable, components of capitalism as an economic system. (Allan Boesak)

      • To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions. (Louis Antoine de Saint-Just)

      • I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. (Howard Mumford Jones)

      • War is a quarrel between rich thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. (Thomas Carlyle)

      • He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. (James MacGregor Burns)

      • Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. (Stokely Carmichael)

      • All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • We are certain that we are invincible, if humanity will not emerge from this imperialistic massacre broken in spirit it will triumph. (Lenin)

      • The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. (Bakunin)

      • Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to. (Mumia Abu-Jamal)

      • Modern monopolist capitalism on a world-wide scale — imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists. (Lenin)

      • Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism…. I could have given Al Capone a few hints… I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys…. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street…. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers…. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. (General Smedley Butler)

      • Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. (Marshal Mcluhan)

      • The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. (Michael Parenti)

      • You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (and women) to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

      • It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford)

      • If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. (Samuel Adams)

      • Truth never damages a cause that is just. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing tactics, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. (Mark Twain)

      • Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. (Ronald Reagan)

      • If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Each word, has an echo. So does each silence. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise! (Max Stirner)

      • Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Military men are just dumb stupid animals, to be used as pawns in foreign policy. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility. (Dalton Trumbo)

      • National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. (Stalin)

      • Fascism is a religion of the state. It assumes the organic unity of the body politic and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people. It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything, including economy and religion, must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the “problem” and therefore defined as the enemy. (Jonah Goldberg)

      • We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

      • Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. (Karl Marx)

      • For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. (Clara Zetkin)

      • For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. (Charles Erwin Wilson)

      • I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. (Churchill)

      • A “liberal” is not a political orientation but a psychiatric diagnosis. (Daniel Estulin)

      • In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely [the] relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure, and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political, and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or — this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms — with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces, these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead, sooner or later, to the transformation of the whole, immense, superstructure. In studying such transformations, it is always necessary to distinguish between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, artistic, or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. Just as one does not judge an individual by what he thinks about himself, so one cannot judge such a period of transformation by its consciousness, but, on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the conflict existing between the social forces of production and the relations of production. (Karl Marx)

      • Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. (Fidel Castro)

      • The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • While the bourgeois state methodically concentrates all its efforts on doping the urban workers, adapting all the literature published at state expense and at the expense of the tsarist and bourgeois parties for this purpose, we can and must utilise our political power to make the urban worker an effective vehicle of communist ideas among the rural proletariat. (Lenin)

      • I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. (Udo Ulfkotte)

      • The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies. (Mumia Abu-Jamal)

      • As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. (Karl Marx)

      • Capitals accumulate faster than population. (Karl Marx)

      • Society exists to serve the social needs of people, not the productivity needs of capital. Those two needs are in basic conflict – a conflict of class interest. (David Bacon)

      • Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Nothing illustrates the power to rationalize cynicism as well as the Public Safety Program, also called the Office of Public Safety. For about twenty-five years, the CIA, working through the Agency for International Development, trained and organized police and paramilitary officers from around the world in techniques of population control, repression, and torture. Schools were set up in the United States, Panama, and Asia, from which tens of thousands graduated. In some cases, former Nazi officers from Hitler’s Third Reich were used as instructors. (John Stockwell)

      • As for myself, I am just a pupil of Lenin’s, and the aim of my life is to be a worthy pupil of his. The task to which I have devoted my life is the elevation of a different class-the working class. That task is not the consolidation of some “national” state, but of a socialist state, and that means an international state; and everything that strengthens that state helps to strengthen the entire international working class. (Stalin)

      • He who allows oppression, shares the crime. (Erasmus Darwin)

      • We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both. (Louis Brandeis)

      • No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is ALWAYS economic. (A. J. P. Taylor)

      • If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry. (Andrew Grove)

      • … the establishment can’t admit [that] it is human rights violations that make … countries attractive to business — so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don’t] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation… (Edward Herman)

      • The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. (Nehru)

      • His forces executed or “disappeared” 3, 197 people. Tens of thousands were tortured, hundreds of thousands were forced into exile. Pinochet destroyed the constitution, the parliament, the political parties, the trade unions, and the free universities. (Saul Landau)

      • As human rights conditions deteriorate, factors affecting the “climate of investment, ” like the tax laws and labor repression, improve from the viewpoint of the multinational corporation. This suggests an important line of causation — military dictatorships tend to improve the investment climate…. The multinational corporate community and the U.S. government are very sensitive to this factor. Military dictators enter into a tacit joint venture arrangement with Free World leaders: They will keep the masses quiet, maintain an open door to multinational investment, and provide bases and otherwise serve as loyal clients. In exchange, they will be aided and protected against their own people, and allowed to loot public property. (Edward Herman)

      • Patriotism, like religion, meets people’s need for something greater to which their individual lives can be anchored … America’s state religion, [is] patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that “treason” is morally worse than murder or rape. (William Blum)

      • …a number of financial and industrial figures of World War II and several members of the government served the cause of money before the cause of patriotism. While aiding the United States’ war effort, they also aided Nazi Germany’s. (Charles Higham)

      • The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. (Gore Vidal)

      • The problem of producing synthetic food is purely chemical, and there is no reason to regard it as insoluble. No doubt natural foods will taste better, and rich men, at weddings and feasts, will provide real peas and beans, which will be mentioned by the newspapers with awe. But in the main food will be manufactured in vast chemical factories. (Bertrand Russell)

      • Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa. It is a reconquest that turns each one of us into a financial slave. (Thomas Sankara)

      • Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Plátōn)

      • As a house on a weak foundation cannot last long, a fantasy, however good it is, becomes an absurd daydream if it is supported by weak basic knowledge. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. (Mao Zedong)

      • Free of affectation and mannerisms, he (Stalin — Ed.) won the heart of everyone he talked with. (Georgy Zhukov)

      • [Fascist ideology was] a variety of socialism which, while rejecting Marxism, remained revolutionary. This form of socialism was also, by definition, anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois, and its opposition to historical materialism made it the natural ally of radical nationalism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • We reject any morality based on extra-human and extra-class concepts. We say that this is deception, dupery, stultification of the workers and peasants in the interests of the landowners and capitalists. (Lenin)

      • The concept of “human existence” suggests an abstract human condition; “class existence” indicts bad conditions. The former suggests a nonexistent egalitarianism, as if master and slave, owner and worker, bomber and bombed all participate in the same universal abstraction. … The human condition for the rich is the inhuman one for the impoverished. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The modern banking system manufactures “money” out of nothing; and the process is, perhaps, the most, astounding piece of “sleight of hand” that was ever invented. (Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas)

      • People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. (Lenin)

      • The working class must break up, smash the “ready-made state machinery,” and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. (Lenin)

      • The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state. (Michael Parenti)

      • Therefore the more civilization advances, the more it is compelled to cover the evils it necessarily creates with the cloak of love and charity, to palliate them or to deny them–in short, to introduce a conventional hypocrisy which was unknown to earlier forms of society and even to the first stages of civilization, and which culminates in the pronouncement: the exploitation of the oppressed class is carried on by the exploiting class simply and solely in the interests of the exploited class itself; and if the exploited class cannot see it and even grows rebellious, that is the basest ingratitude to its benefactors, the exploiters. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Marxism-Leninism is the science of the laws governing the development of nature and society, the science of the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses, the science of the victory of Socialism in all countries, the science of building Communist society. (Stalin)

      • Without simultaneously building the Red Army, every conflict, all political work in the factories, in the Wedding and Märkische Viertel districts, in the Plötze, and in the courtroom will degenerate into nothing more than reformism, which means you merely push through better means of discipline, better methods of intimidation, better methods of exploitation. All that does is break the people down. It does not break down what breaks the people down! (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius)

      • The whole propaganda of imperialism, of the Governments and the press, teaches the people on both sides to see as the main enemy the aggressive designs of the foreign imperialism, never of their own. Therefore, they remain, in fact, enslaved to imperialism and its wars. The mutual fears of the aggressive aims of the enemy imperialism cancel out the common desire of the overwhelming majority of the people in both countries for peace. The imperialist gangsters take advantage of these fears of the people, of this natural desire for national independence, to trap the people into support of their war of spoliation. Under the pretence that the war is for national defence, for the defence of the independence of the nation, they send the armies, the warships and planes to the furthest ends of the earth for the enslavement of other nations and for the battle against rival exploiters over the spoils and conquests of foreign domination. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • But those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man. (Lenin)

      • Firstly, to wage an unceasing struggle against Social-Democratism in all spheres — in the economic and in the political sphere, including in the latter the exposure of bourgeois pacifism with the task of winning the majority of the working class for communism. (Stalin)

      • If trade stops, war starts. (Jack Ma)

      • No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • Every Party member must raise his revolutionary qualities in every respect to the same level as those of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. (Nelson Mandela)

      • This systematic organisation of a terrorized, over-worked and mentally starved slave society, directed to the supreme aim of war, is the most modern development of monopoly capitalism under conditions of extreme crisis. It is known as fascism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The modern state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. (Max Weber)

      • The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force. (Michael Parenti)

      • I honor Lenin as a man who completely sacrificed himself and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice. I do not consider his methods practical, but one thing is certain: men of his type are the guardians and restorers of the conscience of humanity. (Albert Einstein)

      • The sensation of a “new ideology” which intoxicates the more fanatical and emotional adherents of Fascism, giving them the illusion of a liberation from old superstitions and a new dynamic power, represents in reality no new ideology distinct from the general ideology of capitalism, but only the typical ideology of the most modern phase of capitalism, that is to say, the sharpened expression of all the tendencies of imperialism or capitalism in decay, in the period of the general crisis. The contempt for constitutional and legalist forms, the glorification of violence, the denial of all liberal, egalitarian and humanitarian ideas, the demand for the strong and powerful state, the enthronement of war as the highest form of human activity—all these are the typical expressions of modern monopolist capitalism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of verisimilitude. Construct arguments from diverse sources, through so-called probes or fragmentary information. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The CIA and the big corporations were, in my experience, in step with each other. Later I realized that they may argue about details of strategy – a small war here or there. However, both are vigorously committed to supporting the system. (John Stockwell)

      • Nothing is eternal but eternally changing, eternally moving matter and the laws according to which it moves and changes. (Friedrich Engels)

      • There is a Latin tag cui prodest? meaning “who stands to gain?” When it is not immediately apparent which political or social groups, forces or alignments advocate certain proposals, measures, etc., one should always ask: “Who stands to gain?” It is not important who directly advocates a particular policy, since under the present noble system of capitalism any money-bag can always “hire”, buy or enlist any number of lawyers, writers and even parliamentary deputies, professors, parsons and the like to defend any views. We live in an age of commerce, when the bourgeoisie have no scruples about trading in honour or conscience. There are also simpletons who out of stupidity or by force of habit defend views prevalent in certain bourgeois circles. Yes, indeed! In politics it is not so important who directly advocates particular views. What is important is who stands to gain from these views, proposals, measures. (Lenin)

      • If we want to stay really human beings, we must get up and call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals. (Hajo Meyer)

      • I will never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don’t care what the facts are. (George H. W. Bush)

  3. Protestation (English) (protestation@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Feb-2019 22:33:06 EST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)

    Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

    In conversation Wednesday, 06-Feb-2019 22:33:06 EST from freeradical.zone permalink
  4. Protestation (English) (protestation@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2019 20:36:07 EST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)

    Huey P. Newton: The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

    In conversation Monday, 28-Jan-2019 20:36:07 EST from freeradical.zone permalink
  5. Protestation (English) (protestation@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 20-Aug-2018 10:22:16 EDT Protestation (English) Protestation (English)

    Robert McChesney: In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

    In conversation Monday, 20-Aug-2018 10:22:16 EDT from freeradical.zone permalink
  6. Protestation (English) (protestation@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 23-May-2018 13:43:17 EDT Protestation (English) Protestation (English)

    Michael Parenti: The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us.

    In conversation Wednesday, 23-May-2018 13:43:17 EDT from freeradical.zone permalink
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