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If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil society's junior partners, to the dance of social death for hundreds of years, but few have wanted to learn the steps. They have been, and remain today - even in the most anti-racist movements, like the prison abolition movement - invested elsewhere. This is not to say that all oppositional political desire today is pro-white, but it is usually anti-Black, meaning it will not dance with death.


Frank B. Wilderson III


#blackness #marxism #orlando-patterson #race #racism

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.


George Orwell


#communism #equality #marxism #orwell #poor

During the night two delegates of the railwaymen were arrested. The strikers immediately demanded their release, and as this was not conceded, they decided not to allow trains leave the town. At the station all the strikers with their wives and families sat down on the railway track-a sea of human beings. They were threatened with rifles salvoes. The workers bared their breast and cried, "Shoot!" A salvo was fired into the defenceless seated crowd, and 30 to 40 corpses, among them women and children, remained on the ground. On this becoming known the whole town of Kiev went to strike on the same day. The corpses of the murdered workers were raised on high by the crowd and carried round in mass demonstration.


Rosa Luxemburg


#marxism #october-revolution #rosa-luxemburg #russian-revolution #socialism

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.


Martin Luther King Jr.


#democracy #freedom #marxism #radicalism #rebellion

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.


Terry Eagleton


#capitalism #inevitability #inspirational #marxism #resistance

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE


Ernesto Cardenal


#marxism #poetry #life

The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, during the mass slaughter in the country. 'The terms Hutu and Tutsi,' he said severely, 'are merely ideological constructs, describing different relationships to the means and mode of production.' But of course!


Christopher Hitchens


#ideology #marxism #rwanda #rwandan-genocide #rwandan-patriotic-front

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.


Eric Hoffer


#jesus #marx #marxism #nature

I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particular God, but even so one can have a faith, something beyond the limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element of built-in faith, although it claims to be a science and not merely an ideology. This is my first visit to the West: until now I have only been able to go to the Soviet Union or Poland or the Baltic states. In your country I see an abundance of material things. It seems to be unlimited. But there's a difference between our countries that is also a similarity. Both are poor. You see, poverty has different faces. We lack the abundance that you have, and we don't have the freedom of choice. In your country I detect a kind of poverty, which is that you do not need to fight for your survival. For me the struggle has a religious dimension, and I would not want to exchange that for your abundance.


Henning Mankell


#poverty #religion #faith

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.


David Hume


#religion






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