Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 104

Happy international women's day to all you ladies - for the avoidance of doubt, that's anyone without a penis.

- Ky Spoons

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Authentic nationalism isn’t a patriotic or chauvinist mood but quite simply the will of a people to live according to its own laws, this nationalism is and will always be the real enemy of imperialism.

- Ernst von Salomon

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All democracy is nothing but an oligarchy of powerful entrepreneurs allied to satisfy their individual interests at the expense of the interests of the nation, and their assembly of interests rapidly degenerates into an assembly of appetites, appetites for public resources they can obtain with the least effort, without concern about organised labour seizing power from them through electoral manoeuvres.

- George Valois - L'homme qui vient

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"The role of the party supersedes the technocrats. Having reached this point in the thoughts of Saddam Hussein there are a number of important questions, some purely theoretical and others more practical, which must be asked. For instance, can economic growth of the type referred to lead to the creation of socialism? What guarantee is there that it will not go the same way as other experiments in the developing world, also carried out under the banner of socialism, and turn into state capitalism? Looking back at his ideas about the developmental process and the way it should be applied in Iraq, what in Saddam Hussein's opinion is the role of the Iraqi masses? And how is this role represented? What guarantee is there that it will continue, not only amongst the masses, but also amongst the leaders themselves, who may be goaded by success in "battle" imagine that they have won the "war", and consequently make light of the role of the masses, or ultimately do away with it altogether?

Saddam Hussein first of all says: "Not all development is a step along the road to socialism in any country or regime. There has been development in Europe, America, Japan and other countries, but it has not resulted in socialism. The activities of the state in these places have been no more than a form of state capitalism, which is part of the general process of building capitalism. In such instances, the state with its authority is rather ensuring that the capitalist system is maintained." But on the other hand: "Without development, the creation of a flourishing social system which can serve as a model in this area of which we are part, and which can increase the people's well-being and provide the where-withal to defend itself and its principles, is unimaginable. Similarly, development in our country cannot but accurately express the socialist roots of the system with its related programmes, to which again it is inescapably linked. There is therefore a close relationship between this and the principal guidelines of our party in both social and economic fields."" 

- Dr. Amir Iskandar, "Saddam Hussein: The Fighter, the Thinker and the Man"

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The goal of the society in which you live is to destroy you. Do the same to it. The weapon it uses is indifference. Don’t let yourself adopt the same attitude. Go on the attack!

- Michel Houellebecq, Rester vivant (1991)

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I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

- Eugene Debs

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When high ranking officials secretly collude with a foreign nation, aren’t they looked upon as spies? In my eyes this woman [Priti Patel] is guilty of Treason, plain & simple. She should at the very least be facing a lengthy jail term. Here we have not just an MP but a cabinet minister committing this very crime yet she’s got away with a slap on the wrist! The Zionist controlled media have dutifully played down this treachery as if it was nothing.

- Michael Aydinian

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All of Comrade Stalin’s writings are immortal documents of Marxism. His works, The Foundations of Leninism, The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [Bolshevik], and his last great work, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, constitute an encyclopedia of Marxism-Leninism, a synthesis of the experience of the world Communist movement of the past hundred years. His speech at the Nineteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is a precious last testament bequeathed to the Communists of all the countries of the world.

- Mao

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The transgender movement has made clever use of the powerful force of identity politics. Clearly, personal identity, the totality of one’s sense of self, does not consist simply of gender any more than it does of one’s race, ethnicity, religion, or class. Such, however, are the categories upon which identity politics are built. To be politically effective, identity politics depend upon lumping people into groups that obliterate personal identities and characteristics. There are no individuals in identity politics, only amorphous masses of people with a common and defining property, one exploited for a political purpose.

- Richard B Corradi, M.D.
https://thefederalist.com/2016/11/17/psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science/
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