communistquotes

Quotes on Communism from famous communist writers

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“The exploiter camp is true to itself; it depicts bourgeois democracy as “democracy” in general.”

— V.I. Lenin (1919)

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“When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live — forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence — knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.” -Fredrick Engles, The Condition of the Working-Class in England

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俗气！

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Bay Of Pigs

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Dead loser

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Very good

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“Six permissables:

1 — To help the people in their daily work (harvesting, fetching fire-wood, carrying water, sewing, etc.).

2 — Whenever possible to buy commodities for those who live far from markets (knife, salt, needle, thread, pen, paper, etc.).

3 — In spare time, to tell amusing simple and short stories useful to the Resistance, but not betraying secrets.

4 — To teach the population the national script and elementary hygiene.

5 — To study the customs of each region so as to be acquainted with them in order to create an atmosphere of sympathy first, then gradually to explain to the people to abate their superstitions.

6 — To show to the people that you are correct, diligent and disciplined.”

Ho Chi Minh, Twelve Reccomendations

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“In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.”

-Mao Zedong, Opening Address at the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China

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"’Don't you want to abolish state power?’ Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. Our present task is to strengthen the people's state apparatus - mainly the people's army, the people's police and the people's courts - in order to consolidate national defense and protect the people's interests.”

Mao Zedong, On the People's Democratic Dictatorship

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“No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.”

Mao Zedong, The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War

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“They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?”

-Engles, On Authority