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“In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”

Class Conditions Development Association Bourgeois Proletariat Antagonism Communist Manifesto

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

“Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.”

People Important Law Common Weapons Division Introducing Proletariat Bourgeoisie Tactical

Author:Michel Foucault

“World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.”

“Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.”

Social Democracy Pieces Blood Mass Flesh Proletariat Flesh And Blood Small Pieces Social Democracy

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.”

“A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.”

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.”

Country Home Class Working Class Linked My Future Proletariat Home Country

Author:Andrei Platonov

“The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”

Conditions Development Proletariat Communist Manifesto

Book:The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.”

States Use Order Speak Interest Cease Adversaries Proletariat

Book:Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Source: Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

“When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.”

Party Terrible Revolutionary Officers Purses Subordinates Proletariat

Book:The Jewish State

Source: The Jewish State

“Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.”

Literature Causes Party Proletariat

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!”

Hands Fall Fighting Enemy Blood Crazy Red Sacred Fury Stains Rifles Howl Triumphant Proletariat Odor Gunpowder Savoring

Author:Che Guevara

“The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations.”

People Self Force Results Party Acting Class Struggle Democracy Revolution Degrees Mass Organization Unions Socialism Crowns Socialist Committees Working Class Proletariat

Author:C. L. R. James

“By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.”

World Should May Mean War Humanity Order Revolution Capitalism Ultimate Misery Establishment Threatened Sovereignty Bondage Breakdown Proletariat Federation

Book:Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

“If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”

Ifs Should Philosophy Feelings Inspiration Wanted Inspired Unhappiness Bourgeois Proletariat Be Inspired

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.”

Country Social Known Profound Proletariat Upheaval Social Service

Author:C. L. R. James

“The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.”

Party Conditions Building Communication Revolution Socialism Triumph Dictatorship Socialist Indispensable Marxist Proletariat

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.”

World Whole Causes Revolution Becoming Degrees Whole World Revolutionary Unprecedented Becoming More Proletariat Russian Revolution

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.”

Knows Class Middle Middle Class Controversy Proletariat

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.”

Unity Proletariat Bourgeoisie

Author:Karl Marx

“The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago”

Today Humanity Turns Lost Loses Position Tomorrow Slave Cycles Tyrants Tails Chasing Proletariat

Book:Ilustrado: A Novel

Source: Ilustrado: A Novel

“Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?”

Nations Powerful Revolution Victory Defeat Slogans Proletariat Militarism Belligerence

Author:Rosa Parks

“The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.”

Firsts Action Century Revolution Scene International Nineteenth Century Proletariat French Revolution

Author:C. L. R. James

“I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.”

“What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?”

Mean Doe Facts Helping Class Perspective Europe Regard Western Tactics All Alone Proletariat Western Europe

Author:Herman Gorter

“I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat and how it could be arranged that young people would hear nothing whatsoever of God.”

People Young Bits Education Feats Proletariat Rewriting Rewriting History

Author:Walter Ciszek

“What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.”

Needs Evil Blood Good And Evil Baths Proletariat

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.”

Source: History of the Russian Revolution

“The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.”

Whole Style Citizens Workers Revolutionary Revival Rifles Proletariat Militia Cannons Ammunition

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)

“There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.”

Giving Should Arms Victory Circumstances Giving Up Possession Revolutionary Proletariat

Author:Karl Marx

“Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?”

Men War States Young Vision Clear Hero Claims Saint Possession Dictatorship Greatest Gifts Benevolent Proletariat Clear Vision

Author:Dorothy Day

“By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.”

Mean Order Social Class Modern Labor Productions Selling Owners Capitalist Employers Proletariat Bourgeoisie Laborers Social Class

Book:The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx

Source: The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx

“I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.”

Long Philosophy Shows Social Politician Mass Journalist Officials Cartoon Proletariat Deluded Crooks Public Officials Blowhards Cartoon Shows

Author:Conrad Black

“It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.”

Art Culture Standing Proletariat Bourgeoisie Standing Alone Ploy

Book:Art Is in Danger

Source: Art Is in Danger

“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

“One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.”

Character Found Leadership Consciousness Demand Proletariat

Author:C. L. R. James

“My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.”

Influence Mass Revolutionary Dictatorship Council Governing Proletariat Grooming Personal Grooming Personal Influence

Author:Bela Kun

“If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.”

Source: Literature and Revolution

“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.”

“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

“The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.”

Needs Force Blood Italian Baths Proletariat

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be impossible for the revolution to triumph. In these years [the eighteen years since the founding of the Party] the development, consolidation and bolshevization of our Party have proceeded in the midst of revolutionary wars; without armed struggle the Communist Party would assuredly not be what it is today. Comrades throughout the Party must never forget this experience for which we have paid in blood.”

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

“What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor.”

Kind Doe Existence Class Conditions Depends Demand Draws Labor Profit Doctrine Communism Liberation Life And Death Sole Woe Proletariat

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

“How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.”

Thinking Firsts Political Community Situation Conditions Constitution Fundamentals Property Democratic Liberation Transition Introduction Proletariat Present Situation

Book:The Communist Manifesto

Source: The Communist Manifesto

“By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.”

“Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.”

Use Law Force Violence Revolutionary Dictatorship Proletariat Bourgeoisie

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.”

World Two War Struggle Privilege Civil War Combat Inferiority Proletariat Plutocracy

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.”

Left Class Century Keys Areas Contrast Abstraction Bourgeois Proletariat Bourgeoisie Petite

Author:Roland Barthes

“The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army... . Without armed struggle there would be no place for the proletariat, there will be no place for the people, there will be no place for the Communist Party, and there will be no victory in revolution.”

People War Would Be Form Party Struggle Revolution Victory Organization Army Communist Proletariat Communist Party Armed Struggle

Author:Mao Zedong

“The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.”

Art Culture Standing Rising Petty Proletariat Bourgeoisie Ploy

Book:Art Is in Danger

Source: Art Is in Danger

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