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“A spook is haunting Europe—the spook of communism.”
— Marx & Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

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“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”

— Karl Marx. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

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“It is precisely the task of those marxists who have survived the shipwreck of the workers’ movement to forge the theoretical weapons which will make the future proletarian state an instrument of the world revolution.”

— Mitchell. Problems of the Period of Transition I (1936)

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“Legal and political equality is nothing as long as there is economic inequality; and […] it is possible to end it […] only by overthrowing by force the foundations of a society divided into classes.”

— Bruno Maffi. Black Anger Shakes the Rotten Pillars (1965)

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“Antifascism and democracy drug the workers so that the fascists can skewer them; they daze the proletarians so that they cannot see their own class terrain.”

— Vercesi. Fascism? Democracy? Communism (1934)

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“Israel is a mercenary state.”
“Israel is the prototype of the colonial state.”
— Il Programma. The Proletariat and the Colonial and Mercenary State of Israel (1980)

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“The profit motive is inherently expansionary […] This is real competition, antagonistic by nature and turbulent in operation. It is as different from so-called perfect competition as war is from ballet.”

— Anwar Shaikh (1945 - 2026)

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“To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.”
— Leon Trotsky. Terrorism and Communism (1920)

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“The fulcrum of the marxist programme has always been the ‘proletarian dictatorship’ – the historical key to the revolutionary problem.”
— Amadeo Bordiga. Bolshevism Defamed by the Anarchists (1920)

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“Israel conquered the territory over which it now exercises state sovereignty by force of arms: the tractors of the ‘collective farms’ advanced behind the tanks.”
— Il Programma. The Alsace-Lorraines of the Middle East (1955)

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“It should be remembered that Israel contributed to the very birth of Hamas in order to diminish the power and authority of the Palestine Liberation Organisation […] these forces then turned against those who sought to use them.”
— n+1. The War Is Already Global (2023)

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“You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the people see) no fewer than 100 of the notorious kulaks, the rich and the bloodsuckers.”
— Lenin. Telegram to the Penza Communists (1918)

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“The communist programme comes from the future, it anticipates the knowledge of tomorrow's social man, and scientific materialism is nothing other than the use of science in the social sphere.”
— n+1. On Free Will (2023)

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“We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits […] must be shot on the spot.”
— Lenin. Meeting of the Petrograd Soviet Presidium (1918)

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“He who would not prefer to build the whole world out of his own resources, to be a creator of the world, rather than to be eternally bothering about himself, has already been anathematised by the spirit.”
— Karl Marx. Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy (c. 1839)

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“Capital is already dead, it is a corpse that still walks, it is not a question of killing it but of burying it.”
— n+1. On Free Will (2023)

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“Predictions are no longer based on the subjective opinions of military technicians but on objective data. […] And so the much-vaunted free will is defeated.”
— n+1. War Reflects Society (2023)

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“The proletariat can and must emancipate itself. But it cannot emancipate itself without abolishing the conditions of its own life.”
— Marx & Engels. Critique of Critical Criticism (1845)

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“After the efforts to give an answer to the capitalist catastrophe, their ideological elaboration has fetishised the social relations in things […] and therefore they only know how to give an immediatist and sterile answer.”
— Gruppo Barbaria. Criticism of Neo-Luddism (2024)

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“Ideas can never lead beyond an old world order but only beyond the ideas of the old world order. Ideas cannot carry out anything at all. In order to carry out ideas men are needed who can exert practical force.”
— Marx & Engels. Critique of Critical Criticism (1845)