Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
- Lenin
[…] the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
-Karl Marx
There is often as much heterogeneity within a black community, or more heterogeneity, than in cross-racial communities. An African-American woman might find it much easier to work together with a Chicana than with another black woman whose politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality would place her in an entirely different community. What is problematic is the degree to which nationalism has become a paradigm for our community-building processes. We need to move away form such arguments as ”Well, she’s not really black.” ”She comes from such-and-such a place.” ”Her hair is…” ”She doesn’t listen to ‘our’ music,” and so forth. What counts as black is not so important as our political commitment to engage in anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic work.
-Angela Davis
Revolution is not showing life to people. It´s making them live.
-Guy Debord
More than any other single watchword of the communist movement, the refusal of work has been continually and violently outlawed, suppressed and mystified by the traditions and the ideology of socialism. If you want to provoke a socialist to rage, or deflate his flights of demagogy, provoke him on the question of the refusal of work!
-Antonio Negri
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
-Emma Goldman
Freedom is nothing but a vain phantom when one class of men [sic!] can starve another with impunity. Equality is nothing but a vain phantom when the rich, through monopoly, exercise the right of life or death over their like. The republic is nothing but a vain phantom when the counter-revolution can operate every day through the price of commodities, which three quarters of all citizens cannot afford without shedding tears.
-Jacques Roux
