Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 114

“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.”

“I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilised for their children, and for their children's children.”

“Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!”

“Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organisation is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”

“If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!”

- Mother Jones

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"Politicians are people whose wits are singularly sharpened by their voracious appetites, and in whom the hunt for fat jobs develops the cunning of Apaches. They hold purely proletarian organisations in horror, and discredit them as much as they can; frequently they even deny their efficacy, in the hope of alienating the workers from groups which, they say, have no future. But when they perceive that their hatred is powerless, that their abuse does not hinder the working of these detested organisations, and that these have become strong, then they seek to turn to their own profit the forces which the proletariat has created.

The cooperative societies were for a long time denounced as useless to the workers; since they have prospered, more than one politician has cast languishing eyes on their cash box, and would like to see the party supported by the income from the bakery and the grocery."

- Georges Sorel

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"The coronavirus crisis has exposed what already existed – the inequalities we should have been aware of but perhaps for too much of the time ignored. We have had, crudely, a two-tier workforce for many years. While “white-collar” professionals have been able to relocate their screen-based work to home, others, mostly poorer paid, are now cramming in to overcrowded buses and trains to get to work, to complete a shift that provides barely enough to live on. And it is these workers – security staff, transport workers, construction workers, cleaners, as well as health and care professionals – who have been, and remain, most at risk of infection. And if they’re black or Asian, dying at three to four times the rate of white British people, they face a stark race inequality as well as the class divide."

"So who is it that the Tories think it's ok to condemn to death. Unlike the rich and middle classes who have a greater share of the means to protect them and their families it's the low paid workers told to put their lives at risk to look after those who already have it all. Tell this government and the Labour Party to go work your jobs and you will have some of what they enjoy, that is greater protections. If you want to save your's and your families lives do not go back to work unless it is absolutely safe for you to do so. Your better off 6 feet apart than 6 feet under. Don't lose your life or anyone else's to fill the bank books of the rich."

- Sheena Moore

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"The American Military Games team trained at a location near Fort Detrick, the military’s viral lab closed down by the CDC in July for various deficiencies.

The 300-strong US contingent stayed 300 meters from the Huanan Seafood Market where China’s outbreak began (see map below) at the Wuhan Oriental Hotel.

Five of the US troops developed a fever on Oct. 25 and were taken to an infectious-diseases hospital for treatment.

42 employees of the Oriental Hotel were diagnosed with COVID-19, becoming the first cluster in Wuhan. At the time only 7 people from the market had been thus diagnosed (and treated before the hotel staff). All 7 had contact with the 42 from the hotel. From this source, the virus spread to the rest of China.

It is now virtually certain that COVID-19 was brought to Wuhan by American troops taking part in the city’s World Military Games last Oct. 18-27."

"How about free choice imagine that! If you want to go out then fuck off out if you want to stay indoors and hide from a virus with 99% survival rate then you stay the fuck indoors.

I use my own mind make my own decisions I've never respected authority never blindly done what I'm told and I'm not going to start now.

The govt allows alcohol and the chaos it creates but criminalises a harmless plant with health benefits.

The govt locks up bank robbers and drug dealers longer than paedos and rapists.
The govt locks up small business men for not paying tax but allows those at the top to evade billions.
The govt allowed millions of infected people here on planes with no checks while they put us on house arrest and banned us from seeing each other.

THE GOVT can kiss my arse

- Vanessa Brooks

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