“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

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        It’s a copypasta

        You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace. You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin’ lord the grain. Your fucking children, you’ve had 15 children. You’ve never taken a bath. You’ve literally never. washed. your. penis. You’ve never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You’ve had 40 children, 3 of them are alive. 2 of them are child soldiers in the Duke’s army.

        Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36. You fucking can’t read. You don’t know what TV is. If you were transported into today, you would be the worst gamer of all time. You don’t know shit. You literally probably don’t even know what the direction ‘left’ is. I’m sure some Medieval guy is gonna get mad at me for this, bitch I’ve been to the Renaissance Fair. I’ve eaten a large turkey wing, which the Juggalos call ‘bitch beaters’, which I think is problematic but a funny thing to call them.

        Motherfucker, you gotta recognize where you are, and then you gotta get passed that. You gotta be unemotional. You can’t sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette. Your job is to crawl up the ladder, motherfucker. You live in the HOLE. You’re in the HOLE. You are a RAT. And the rat, when he’s in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole.

        You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and…

        End. This. Nightmare.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        It’s a funny rant by Brace Belden on the TrueAnon podcast. He’s trying to get across how far away from an actual socialist revolution our society is.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; – but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present! I am in earnest – I will not equivocate I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.

      William Lloyd Garrison, in the introduction to the first issue of the abolitionist paper The Liberator

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    “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.

  • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    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

  • Shoegazer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    “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

  • Hawke [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    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.