`Alexandra Kollontai`,`A Giant Mind, A Giant Will (1914-1916)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1914/giant.htm`,`There are individuals Ð a mere handful in the history of mankind Ð who, while themselves being the product of an imminent catastrophic change, leave their mark upon an entire epoch. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is one such giant mind, one such giant will...`
`Alexandra Kollontai`,`Our Tasks (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1917/tasks.htm`,`It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.`
`Antonio Gramsci`,`The development of fascism (1921)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/gramsci/1921/07/development_fascism.htm`,`The popular masses who want peace, freedom and bread must, in this period of dark onrush of events, always hold themselves ready to spring up as one man against every danger of new carnage and suffering threatened by the so heroic exploits of fascism.`
`Antonio Gramsci`,`The Russian Maximalists (1916)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/gramsci/1917/07/russian_maximalists.htm`,`The revolution will move forward until its consolidation is total. The time is still far off when there can be a period of relative calm. And life is always revolution.`
`August Bebel`,`Socialism and the Student (1905)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/bebel/1905/12/x01.htm`,`And it is not our object to destroy civilization. We do not desire to “divide up,” as people are in the habit of saying; we do not wish to throw humanity back into barbarism; on the contrary, we desire to lift the whole of humanity to the highest thinkable plane of civilization. We wish every individual without exception to have a share in the means of culture and education according to his capacities and his needs. This is the loftiest ideal that the human race can set before itself; and this ideal is possible today because it is only now that, in consequence of the thousands of years of progress towards civilization and of the tremendous acquisitions which man has gained in this age of culture; because only now are all the means and possibilities given through which we may realize this ideal condition in the way that the majority of men desire to realize it.`
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`Bela Kun`,`The Most Burning Question: Unity of Action (1934)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/kun-bela/pamphlets/1934/10.htm`,`We Communists...stand for the organizational unity of the labor movement; we stand for a great single mass Party of the proletariat.`
`Bhagat Singh`,`The Red Pamphlet (1929)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/bhagat-singh/1929/04/08.htm`,`It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear...`
`Carlos Marighella`,`Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla (1969)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marighella-carlos/1969/06/minimanual-urban-guerrilla/ch38.htm`,`The urban guerrilla is engaged in revolutionary action for the people, and with them seeks the participation of the people in the struggle against the dictatorship and the liberation of the country.`
`Duncan Hallas`,`Marx, Engels and the vote (1983)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/hallas/works/1983/06/vote.htm`,`We are for the defence of bourgeois democracy Ð more precisely the defence of democratic rights Ð against attacks from the right.We are, in principle, in favour of electoral activity but only as a subordinate form of activity, only as an auxiliary to direct working class action, never as an end in itselfWe are for workers’ power on the basis of the direct rule of working class organisations, whatever specific form this may take. This involves far, far more elections but on a new basis.’the abolition of state power is the goal of all socialists, including and above all Marx’... ‘Unless this goal is reached, true democracy, that is equality and freedom is not attainable.’ And the road to the abolition of state power is the road of revolution and the commune-state, not the road of reformist electoralism.`
`Eleanor Marx`,`Speech on the First May Day (1890)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/eleanor-marx/works/mayday.htm`,`We must not be like some Christians who sin for six days and go to church on the seventh, but we must speak for the cause daily, and make the men, and especially the women that we meet, come into the ranks to help us.`
`Emma Goldman`,`A New Declaration of Independence (1909)`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1909/declaration.htm`,`When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.`
`E. Sylvia Pankhurst`,`Communism and its Tactics (1921)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/pankhurst-sylvia/communism-tactics/ch01.htm`,`When wages have disappeared, when all are upon a basis of economic equality, when the position of manager, director, organiser, etc., brings no material advantage, the desire for it will be less widespread and less keen, and the danger of oppressive action by the management will be largely nullified. Nevertheless, management imposed on unwilling subordinates will not be tolerated; where the organiser has chosen the assistants, the assistants will be free to leave, or change him; where the assistants choose the organiser, they will be free to change him. Co-operation for the common good is necessary, but freedom, not domination, is the goal.`
`Eugene V. Debs`,`Arouse, ye slaves! (1906)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1906/arouse.htm`,`They have done their best and their worst to crush and enslave us. Their politicians have betrayed us, their courts have thrown us into jail without trial and their soldiers have shot our comrades dead in their tracks.The worm turns at last, and so does the worker.`
`Eugene V. Debs`,`Arouse, ye slaves! (1906)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1906/arouse.htm`,`Whatever is done we must do ourselves, and if we stand up like men from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf, we will strike terror to their cowardly hearts and they will be but too eager to relax their grip upon our throats and beat a swift retreat.`
`Gregory Zinoviev`,`Closing Address at 2nd Congress of Comintern (1920)`,`http://marxists.org/history/international/comintern/2nd-congress/ch15.htm`,`Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end of the accursed war, for unification. This striving of the workers for unification is the greatest factor in world history.`
`Ho Chi Minh`,`Oppression Hits All Races (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1923/08/17.htm`,`All the martyrs of the working class...are victims of the same murderer: international capitalism. And it is always in belief in the liberation of their oppressed brothers, without discrimination as to race or country, that the souls of these martyrs will find supreme consolation.After experiencing these painful lessons, the oppressed people of all countries ought to know on which side their true brothers are, and on which side their enemy.`
`Jose Carlos Mariategui`,`Anti-Imperialist Viewpoint (1929)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/1929-ai.htm`,`For us, anti-imperialism does not and cannot constitute, by itself a political program for a mass movement capable of conquering state power. Anti-imperialism, even if it could mobilize the nationalist bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie on the side of the worker and peasant masses (and we have already definitively denied this possibility), does not annul class antagonisms nor suppress different class interests.`
`Joseph Stalin`,`Concerning the International Situation`,`https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/09/20.htm`,`Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.`
`Kwame Nkrumah`,`African Socialism Revisited (1967)`,`http://marxists.org/subject/africa/nkrumah/1967/african-socialism-revisited.htm`,`Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.`
`Leon Trotsky`,`Ultraleft Tactics in Fighting the Fascists (March 1934)`,`https://archive.org/stream/leon-trotskii-collected-writings-1938-1939/leon-trotskii-collected-writings-supplement-1934-1940_djvu.txt`,`The tactical, or if you will, “technical,” task was quite simple — grab every fascist or every isolated group of fascists by their collars, acquaint them with the pavement a few times, strip them of their fascist insignia and documents, and without carrying things any further, leave them with their fright and a few good black and blue marks.`
`Lev Kamenev`,`The Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1920)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/kamenev/1920/x01/x01.htm`,`Anyone who doubts the inevitability of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as a necessary stage of its victory over the bourgeoisie, facilitates the conditions for the victory of the latter; anyone who doubts or renounces the political party of the proletariat, is helping to weaken and disorganize the working class.`
`Liu Shaoqi`,`How to be a Good Communist (1939)`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/ch01.htm`,`We should therefore see ourselves as in need of change and capable of being changed. We should not look upon ourselves as immutable, perfect and sacrosanct, as persons who need not and cannot be changed. When we pose the task of remoulding ourselves in social struggle, we are not demeaning ourselves; the objective laws of social development demand it. Unless we do so, we cannot make progress, or fulfill the task of changing society.`
`Liu Shaoqi`,`Internationalism and Nationalism (1952) `,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1952/internationalism_nationalism/ch01.htm`,`It is common knowledge that the class interests of the bourgeoisie are built on the foundation of capitalist exploitation. It seeks profits and still more profits.The bourgeois class itself is divided into several strata, and each of those into several groups. In their pursuit of profits, the capitalists not only unscrupulously exploit the proletariat; even within their own class the capitalists do not scruple to swallow up their rivals in competition – the big fish swallows the little fish, the big bourgeoisie swallows the petty and middle bourgeoisie, one group squeezes out and swallows another group.The bourgeoisie strives to possess the means of production and the market of its own country. And since its greed for profits knows no limits, the bourgeoisie strives to expand beyond its own country, to seize foreign markets, sources of raw materials and areas for capital investment, thus subjugating other nations and exploiting them. At the same time it squeezes out the bourgeoisie or rival capitalists of other countries.The exploitation of wage labour, competition, the squeezing out, suppressing and swallowing of rivals among the capitalists themselves, the resorting to war and even world war, the utilization of all means to secure a monopoly position in its own country and throughout the world – such is the inherent character of the profit-seeking bourgeoisie. This is the class basis of bourgeois nationalism and of all bourgeois ideologies.`
`Liu Shaoqi`,`On the Party (1945)`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1945/on-party/ch04.htm`,`The masses must have their own staunch vanguard which, for its part, must maintain close ties with the widest possible section of the masses. Only thus will the emancipation of the people be possible.`
`Louise Bryant`,`Mirrors Of Moscow (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/bryant/works/1923-mom/foreword.htm`,`Revolution! The air is filled with flames and fumes. The shapes of men, seen through the smoke, become distorted and unreal. Promethean supermen, they seem, giants in sin or virtue, Satans or saviours. But, in truth, behind the screen of smoke and flame they are like other men: no larger and no smaller, no better and no worse: all creatures of the same incessant passions, hungers, vanities and fears.`
`Mansoor Hekmat`,`‘Election Day’: A Day of Protest (2001)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/hekmat-mansoor/2001/06/election.htm`,`To remain at home and not vote is behind the political situation. It is insufficient.`
`Mansoor Hekmat`,`Ending Terrorism is Our Task (2001));`,`http://marxists.org/archive/hekmat-mansoor/2001/09/14.htm`,`Ending terrorism is our task. It is the task of us who fight for people’s equality, for their rights and dignity. State terrorism will end by overthrowing terrorist states. Non-state terrorism must be eradicated by putting an end to the hardships, discrimination, exploitation and suppression that lead people to desperation and make them fall prey to reactionary and inhuman organisations. It can be eradicated by exposing religion, ethnicism, racism and any reactionary ideology, which has no respect for people. Our response is to fight for the creation of an open, free and equal society in which people, their lives, dignity and well being are valued.`
`Maurice Thorez`,`The Popular Front (1960)`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/thorez/1960/popular-front.htm`,`It’s not communism that expropriates the peasant’s field, or the merchant’s store, that ruins the small and medium industrialists, helpless to put up with the competition of the trusts. It’s not communism that set alight class struggle. But it’s capitalism that destroys the property of the little people in order to take it over; that buys at a low price the labor of the worker and makes weigh upon him the full weight of oppression and coercion. War, economic crisis, unemployment, the expropriation and ruin of the middle classes are not our doing. They are the result of the private property of the great means of production, which has become – after having been a stimulant – a hindrance to economic life and progress. The property of the great means of production is the only one that should be socialized, if we want to lay down the base for a rational economy.`
`M. N. Roy`,`On Non-Violence and the Masses (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/roy/1923/11/10.htm`,`Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle; therefore, our primary task is to organize the masses and lead them in the struggle for economic freedom.`
`M. N. Roy`,`On Non-Violence and the Masses (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/roy/1923/11/10.htm`,`Yes, we must fight, struggle, be ready for defeats and disappointments, but once we have consciously set our feet on the right road, with a clear vision of the task ahead, nothing can daunt us and all causes for pessimism disappear.`
`Nadezhda K. Krupskaya`,`Letter to A. M. Gorky (1932)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/ethics.htm`,`...To build socialism means not only building gigantic factories and flour mills. This is essential but not enough for building socialism. People must grow in mind and heart. And on the basis of this individual growth of each in our conditions a new type of mighty socialist collective will in the long run be formed, where “I” and “we” will merge into one inseparable whole. Such a collective can only develop on the basis of profound ideological solidarity and an equally profound emotional rapprochement, mutual understanding.`
`Nadezhda K. Krupskaya`,`On Communist Ethics (1924)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/ethics.htm`,`...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.`
`Nadezhda K. Krupskaya`,`Preface to The Emancipation of Women in Writings of V.I. Lenin (1933)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/krup1.htm`,`Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.`
`N. I. Bukharin and E. Preobrazhensky`,`The ABC of Communism (1920)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm`,`The question now arises, for what reason does the capitalist class hire workers? Everyone knows that the reason is by no means because the factory owners wish to feed the hungry workers, but because they wish to extract profit from them. For the sake of profit, the factory owner builds his factory; for the sake of profit, he engages workers; for the sake of profit, he is always nosing out where higher prices are paid. Profit is the motive of all his calculations. Herein, moreover, we discern a very interesting characteristic of capitalist society. For society does not itself produce the things which are necessary and useful to it; instead of this, the capitalist class compels the workers to produce those things for which more will be paid, those things from which the capitalists derive the largest profit. Whisky, for example, is a very harmful substance, and alcoholic liquors in general ought to be produced; only for technical purposes and for their use in medicine. But throughout the world the capitalists produce alcohol with all their might. Why? Because to ply the people with drink is extremely profitable.`
`Nikita Khrushchev`,`Of What Freedom Are You Speaking? (1961)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1961/04/22.htm`,`If it is now, more than ever before, the duty of every State and its leaders not to permit actions which are capable of jeopardizing universal peace. That applies with all the more force to the leaders of the Great Powers.`
`Nikolai Bukharin`,`Introduction to Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/intro.htm`,`The practical task of a reconstruction of society may be correctly solved by the application of a scientific policy of the working class, i.e., a policy based on scientific theory; this scientific theory, in the case of the proletarian, is the theory founded by Karl Marx.`
`Pantelis Pouliopoulos`,`What the Veterans and Army Victims Demand (1924)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/pouliop/works/1924/05/x01.htm`,`We all know, and if we don’t, then experience will teach us, that the great purpose for which we fight will be achieved if our Unions take in their organised lines the great mass of the disbanded and the victims. The more united and more concrete we are, the more our power will be greater and more terrible to the exploiters and militarists, the more our imposition upon the State will be more powerful. Our today’s Unions must organise to awaken and move the indifferent and sleeping masses, to analyse our program to them, to give them consciousness of their interests and the dangers that threaten their lives.`
`Paul Lafargue`,`Socialism and Nationalisation (1882)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1882/06/socnat.htm`,`The revolutionary power which will socialise the instruments of labour taken from the capitalist class, will have to mount guard over the general interests of society served by the socialised industries, and in particular over the interests of those directly engaged in them.`
`Raya Dunayevskaya`,`New Passions and New Forces in Philosophy & Revolution (1973)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/phil-rev/dunayev9.htm`,`Ours is the age that can meet the challenge of the times when we work out so new a relationship of theory to practice that the proof of the unity is in the Subject’s own self-development. Philosophy and revolution will first then liberate the innate talents of men and women who will become whole. Whether or not we recognise that this is the task history has “assigned,” to our epoch, it is a task that remains to be done.`
`Sylvia Pankhurst`,`Future Society (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/pankhurst-sylvia/1923/future-society.htm`,`The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and the means of production, distribution and transport are held in common, production being for use and not for profit.`
`Zhou Enlai`,`Guidelines for Myself (1943)`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/zhou-enlai/1943/03/18.htm`,`Never become alienated from the masses; learn from them and help them. Lead a collective life, inquire into the concerns of the people around you, study their problems and abide by the rules of discipline`
`Zhou Enlai`,`Report on the Work of the Government (1975)`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/zhou-enlai/1975/01/13.htm`,`We must persist in the mass line: From the masses, to the masses; we must have unshakable faith in the vast majority of the masses and firmly rely on them. Both in revolution and in construction, we should boldly arouse the people and unfold vigorous mass movements.`
