Leonard Johns

“What is the basis of bases - the class organisation of society or its productive forces? In the productive forces is expressed the materialised economic skill of mankind, his historical ability to ensure his existence”
― Leon Trotsky

“The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defense of bourgeois oppression”
― Vladimir Lenin

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”
― Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

“How much significance can twenty or thirty thousand Oppositionists have for a party of two million? In such a question, the mere juxtaposition of figures means nothing. Ten revolutionists in a regiment is enough to bring it over, in a red-hot political atmosphere, to the side of the people”
― Leon Trotsky, The revolution betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it going?