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“If the existence of Israel necessitates not only genocide but an end to the very safeguards that protect Jewish life, expression, and worship, how will that keep us safe?” — Eli Valley, 2025.

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Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. The exchange of commodities expresses the connection between individual producers through the market. Money signifies that the connection is becoming closer and closer, inseparably uniting the entire economic life of the individual producers into one whole. Capital signifies a further development of this connection: man’s labour-power becomes a commodity. The wage-worker sells his labour-power to the owner of land, factories and instruments of labour. The worker spends one part of the day covering the cost of maintaining himself and his family (wages), while the other part of the day he works without remuneration, creating for the capitalist surplus-value, the source of profit, the source of the wealth of the capitalist class.

V.I. Lenin

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When the armed vanguard of the people achieves power both the imperialists and the national exploiting class will be liquidated at one stroke.

Comandante Che Guevara

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It follows, therefore, that workers who place political unity with ‘their own’ bourgeoisie above complete unity with the proletariat of all nations, are acting against their own interests, against the interests of socialism and against the interests of democracy.

V.I. Lenin

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As long as the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie and the ruling class continues, as long as all demands are not met, May Day will be the yearly expression of these demands.

Dr. Rosa Luxemburg

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May 1st has marked a time in the long procession of the centuries. The beautiful month of May, when all nature emerges from her long, dreary, winter’s sleep … What more appropriate time could the workers choose to renew their efforts to inaugurate a better day, a better life for themselves?

Lucy E. Parsons

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…who is able to take advantage of every event, however small, in order to set forth before all his socialist convictions and his democratic demands, in order to clarify for all and everyone the world-historic significance of the struggle for the emancipation of the proletariat.

V.I. Lenin

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As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will be utilised not for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in profits for the capitalists…

V.I. Lenin

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Such as it is, media electoral coverage is lavishly bestowed on the two major parties, while minor parties are totally ignored or allotted but a few minutes, if that, over the entire campaign. Thus the media help perpetuate the procapitalist, two-party monopoly.

Michael Parenti

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In the US, there is basically one party — the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

Professor Noam Chomsky

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Social Justice Quotations for Activists turned 8 today!

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Henry Ford, Thomas Watson, and press moguls like Hearst and McCormick looked with approval on both Hitler and the many profascist organizations sprouting in the United States during the 1930s.

Michael Parenti

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Another hard fact that is difficult to drive home to the American mind, is that he belongs to an entirely different class from that to which the employing class belongs.

Lucy E. Parsons

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It is not only the youth that is studying today; everyone for whom the cause of Marx, Engels and Lenin is dear is studying.

Nadezhda K. Krupskaya

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It is not stability that underpins empire. It is violence. And I don’t just mean wars in which humans fight humans. I also mean the psychotic violence against our dying planet.

Arundhati Roy

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“Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker.” — V.I. Lenin

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“The people have been deceived and diverted from their vital interests by means of spectacular and meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties. ¶ This so-called bipartisan system prevailing in America and Britain has been one of the most powerful means of preventing the rise of an independent working-class, i.e., genuinely socialist, party.” — V.I. Lenin