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“Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.”

“The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.”

Ideas Wonder Revolution Development Relation Property Traditional Radical Communist Proletariat Rupture

Book:The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.”

“Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.”

Should Heaven Forget Happened Revolution Victim China Disaster Fallen Torture Repeats Folly Museums Inhuman Proletariat

Author:Ba Jin

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.”

World Firsts Process Events Creation Theory Revolution Bounds Defeat Wide Socialism Permanent Revolutionary Germany Definite Curves Calendars Interdependence Proletariat Stalinism

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”

World Country Winning Loses Class Communication Revolution Unity Chains Revolutionary Communist Ruling Proletariat Class Struggle Nothing To Lose Communist Manifesto

Book:The Communist Manifesto

Source: The Communist Manifesto

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

World Winning Revolution Chains Communism Revolutionary Communist Proletariat Class Struggle Nothing To Lose Uniting Communist Manifesto

Author:Karl Marx

“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.”

School History Teacher Revolution Best Teacher Proletariat Best School True Teacher

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.”

Firsts Winning Steps Class Democracy Position Communication Revolution Battle Raises First Steps Working Class Ruling Proletariat

Book:The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English