Derrick R.

“But I didn’t live in a world where any of my dreams were possible anymore.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“To say that “socialism doesn’t work” is to overlook the fact that it did. In Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba, revolutionary communism created a life for the mass of people that was far better than the wretched existence they had endured under feudal lords, military bosses, foreign colonizers, and Western capitalists. The end result was a dramatic improvement in living conditions for hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or since witnessed in history. State”
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

“Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.”
― James Burke, Connections

“Capitalism is not just an economic system but an entire social order. Once it takes hold, it is not voted out of existence by electing socialists or communists.”
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism