Best Class Struggle Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.”

Source: The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325

“Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.”

“It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is a history of their struggle against the state.”

Said States Might Class Struggle Truthfulness Class Struggle

Author:Pierre Clastres

“Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.”

“As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.”

Class Struggle Study Marxism Popular Song Class Struggle

Author:C. L. R. James

“The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German.”

Lasts Race Class Struggle Primal Class Struggle Dominating

Book:The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question

Source: The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question

“Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.”

Results Class Destiny Struggle Socialism Departure Class Struggle

Author:Enver Hoxha

“In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.”

Believe Mean Class Struggle Sea Expression Opposites Officials Legends Capitalist Invasion Class Struggle

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.”

Nations Class Struggle Democracy Sacred International Socialist Solidarity Slogans Class Struggle

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.”

Thinking Life Hard Life Is Class Struggle Scientist Forgotten Not Sure Materialism Formulas Spontaneous Unpredictable Tangible Class Struggle Intangible

Author:Diane Frolov

“One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.”

Reason Home School Wealth Poor Money Class Struggle Rich Middle Subjects Taught Debt Middle Class Get Rich Class Struggle

Book:Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

“The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.”

World Class Struggle Dictatorship World History Proletariat Class Struggle Classless Society

Author:Karl Marx

“All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.”

Has Beens Social Class Struggle Stage Development Various Social Development Class Struggle

Author:Friedrich Engels

“Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new.”

Giving Force Class Struggle Development Relation Productions Dues Contradiction Productive Internals Suppression Class Struggle Changes In Society Classes Of Society

Author:Mao Zedong

“The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the class struggles of the peasants, the peasant uprisings and peasant wars that constituted the real motive force of historical development in Chinese feudal society.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself.”

People Ifs Doe Fall Class Struggle China Dust Organize Sweeping Reactionaries Class Struggle Brooms

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.”

Force Steps Enemy Class Struggle Stage China Chinese Aggressive Imperialism Accord Reactionaries Class Struggle

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.”

“Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.”

People Wells Sides Class Struggle Speech Capitalism Deeds Revolutionary Imperialism Bureaucrats Class Struggle Feudalism

Author:Mao Zedong

“Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.”

Mean Spirit Party Class Struggle Policy Members Mass Communist Proletariat Class Struggle Communist Party

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do nor now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Stills Problem Mistake Enemy Class Struggle Gun Regard Raises Bounds Commit Class Struggle

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After there is peace and order throughout the country, they will still engage in sabotage and create disturbances in various ways and will try every day and every minute to stage a comeback. This is inevitable, beyond all doubt, and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored.”

“The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.”

“The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.”

Political Differences Party Class Principles Struggle Republican Wings Democratic Arise Relate Capitalist Spoil Democratic Party Class Struggle

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.”

Hands Class Struggle Weapons Pursuit Fearless Proven Invasion Class Struggle

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.”

World Way Feelings Hate Class Struggle Pieces Violence Mass Labor Unions Greed Envy Mutual Our World Respectable Class Struggle Labor Union Pseudonyms

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn