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“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of history will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.” -Stalin

Several lines, but feels particularly relevant these days. From James Baldwin:

The people who are running around throwing people in jail and ruining reputations and screaming about Communists wouldn’t know one if he fell from the ceiling. And wouldn’t care! What they are concerned about is propping up somehow the doctrine of white supremacy, so that they can seem to have given it up, but really still hold the power.

God will not forgive us if we fail. - Leonid Brezhnev

a fascist jerked off today, did you?

“You will be shot” -Lenin

Socialism or barbarism.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen Jay Gould

Poor countries aren't underdeveloped, they are overexploited. Parenti.

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.

Not from a communist, but wonderfully captures alienation in commodity production and the inescapable ethical reality of consumption:

“For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"The so-called crisis of homelessness has not abated, and it can’t. So, therefore, has my sense of rage not abated, and it can’t." - Don Mitchell, Mean Streets: Homelessness, public space, and the limits of capital. Definitely one of my favorite books I've read in the last couple years.

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist." - Dom Helder Camara. Pretty sure he wasn't actually a lefty but this is still good.

Hunger is hunger; but the hunger that is satisfied by cooked meat eaten with a knife and fork differs from hunger that devours raw meat with the help of hands, nails and teeth. - Karl Marx.

"I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood. I had... vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done."

“A man is not killed when his heart is struck by a bullet; he is killed when he is cancelled.” - Joseph Stalin

“A woke peasant can harvest plenty of soy.” - Ho Chi Minh

“Many men wish death upon me. Lord, I don't cry no more; I don't look to the sky no more. Have mercy on me.” - Fidel Castro

Capitalism more like crapitalism amirite

[Zhukov] A modern soldier's greatest fear, it's not death, it's not starvation, it's chafing!

[Khrushchev, interjecting] ...And then he planted the flag in Hitler's bunker or he knocked the bear out with one punch.

[Zhukov] ...It was Goebbels's bunker, not Hitler's!

“Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free people will walk to build a better society.” ~ Salvador Allende