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#1

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#2

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Vladimir Lenin

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#3

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
― Vladimir Lenin

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

423 likes

#4

“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”
― Vladimir Lenin

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#5

“Sometimes - history needs a push.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

tags: history

126 likes

#6

“Every society is three meals away from chaos”
― Vladimir Lenin

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#7

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society

1494 likes

#8

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle

1665 likes

#9

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

tags: facts, farce, georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, hegel, history, history-repeats-itself

465 likes

#10

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
― Karl Marx

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#11

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

142 likes

#12

“It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.”
― Nina Simone, I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone

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#13

“His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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#14

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western

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