"It takes a good guy with a state to stop a bad guy with a state"
-Lenin, State and Revolution
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"It takes a good guy with a state to stop a bad guy with a state"
-Lenin, State and Revolution
"Mom said it's my turn on the state apparatus" - V. I. Lenin
Stalin vs. Trotsky, the baby years
I posted this one on Facebook once and it got flagged as misinformation
Please pick up your dysynformatziya check at 112 Red Square, Moscow
Technically correct, the worst kind of correct.
lmfao
Bitch, you are a serf. We're in- we're in fucking 1320, motherfucker. You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace.
“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of history will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.” -Stalin
Every cancer is a homicide, every boss better run and hide - :boots-riley:
God will not forgive us if we fail. - Leonid Brezhnev
“give me that fucking infant”
-me
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” – Lenin.
I want to get off these weeks' wild ride. :doomer:
mfw this week was -100 years
Why don't you live for the people? Why don't you struggle for the people? Why don't you die for the people? - Fred Hampton
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution - Fred Hampton
Dare to struggle! Dare to win! - Mao
We must dare to invent the future - Thomas Sankara
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I am changing the things I cannot accept - Angela Davis
Sometimes, history needs a push - Lenin
I believe in only one thing, the power of human will - Stalin
We are nothing, Let us be everything! - Pierre De Geyter (the Internationale)
Dead-ass, this is my religion:
I believe in only one thing, the power of human will - Stalin
-I had never seen this before, nor knew Stalin said it. Aww, Papa Joe, come back… please?
:chad-stalin:
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” Che
No altar, no belief, no holy book, neither the Qur’an nor the Bible nor the others, have ever been able to reconcile the rich and the poor, the exploiter and the exploited. And if Jesus himself had to take the whip to chase them from his temple, it is indeed because that is the only language they hear.” Thomas Sankara
she's electable if you fucking vote for her
"While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." -Eugene V. Debs
"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality." -Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
“You will be shot” -Lenin
You Yankee fucks missed again
Fidel Castro, probably
Not communist per se, but I like this quote which I think is from Lula:
Those in power can kill one, two, or three roses, but they will never be able to stop the coming of spring
Oh and the Chad from that vice documentary:
The kind Vladimir Ilyich would've shot everybody here.
“Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free people will walk to build a better society.” ~ Salvador Allende
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
"Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Nazis are harmless. Therefore when I kill a Nazi I'm saving lives."
-:pavlichenko:
all oppressed people have a right to violence - Lizzy Borden
[Zhukov] A modern soldier's greatest fear, it's not death, it's not starvation, it's chafing!
[Khrushchev, interjecting] ...And then he planted the flag in Hitler's bunker or he knocked the bear out with one punch.
[Zhukov] ...It was Goebbels's bunker, not Hitler's!
:jesse-wtf:
The Death of Stalin (2017), starring Steve Buscemi as :corn-man-khrush:, Michael Palin as :molotov:, Jeffrey Tambor as a sex pest (off-camera), and Jason Isaacs as Field Marshal Zhukov. Produced by the :LIB: behind Veep and In the Loop, so pretty ahistorical and full of praise for the corn lord.
I had same reaction until I realized it’s from death of Stalin. Still kind of a random quote though
[Zhukov] A modern soldier’s greatest fear, it’s not death, it’s not starvation, it’s chafing!
Truly a warrior poet. Chafing sucks.
Several lines, but feels particularly relevant these days. From James Baldwin:
The people who are running around throwing people in jail and ruining reputations and screaming about Communists wouldn’t know one if he fell from the ceiling. And wouldn’t care! What they are concerned about is propping up somehow the doctrine of white supremacy, so that they can seem to have given it up, but really still hold the power.
"there are no liberators. the people liberate themselves" - che, iirc
Death to America
If you don't steal from your boss, you're stealing from your family.
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.
Always thought this line from the manifesto was banger
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.