Leonard Johns

“Estrangement is manifested not only in the fact that my means belong to someone else, that which I desire is the inaccessible possession of another, but also in the fact that everything is itself - that my activity is something else and that finally (and this applies to the capitalist), all is under the sway of inhuman power”
― Karl marx

“To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naive as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers' wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Marxism has won its historic significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because, far from rejecting the most valuable achievements of the bourgeois epoch, it has, on the contrary, assimilated and refashioned everything of value in more than two thousand years of the development of human thought and culture”
― Vladimir Lenin

“The workers' party - the real one - is not a machine for parliamentary manoeuvres, it is the accumulated and organised experience of the proletariat. It is only with the aid of the party, which rests upon the whole history of its past, which foresees theoretically the paths of development, all its stages, and which extracts from it the necessary formula of action, that the proletariat frees itself from the need of always recommencing its history: its hesitations, its lack of decision, its mistakes”
― Leon Trotsky, The lessons of Spain