Lena

“Without theoretical consciousness, without the need to express it in articulate language, but making their statement with their bodies and their actions, they cried out that there can be no civil and political equality as long as there is economic inequality, and that the way to end this inequality is not with laws, decrees, lectures and sermons, but by overthrowing by force the bases of a society divided into classes.”
― Amadeo Bordiga, The Science and Passion of Communism : Selected Writings of Amadeo Bordiga

“But nothing, however profitable, goes on for ever. From the very momentum of their own development, colonial planters, French and British bourgeois, were generating internal stresses and intensifying external rivalries, moving blindly to explosions and conflicts which would shatter the basis of their dominance and create the possibility of emancipation.”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

“Parliament may be ultimately accountable to its electorate, but the 'people' are not truly sovereign. For all intents and purposes, there is no politics - or at least no legitimate politics - outside Parliament. Indeed, the more inclusive the 'people' has become, the more the dominant political ideologies - from Conservative to mainstream Labour - have insisted on depoliticising the world outside Parliament and delegitimating 'extra-parliamentary' politics.”
― Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader

“Liberalism's thought is quite liberal with the chaos of its idealist contents.”
― Jun Tosaka, The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism