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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 50m

A society internalizes surveillance when power is omnipresent. The line captures how control works best when people police themselves.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 50m

"Big Brother is watching you." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

Quote card: "Big Brother is watching you." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 6h

A slogan that simplifies politics into tribal identity. Oversimplification prepares minds to accept later reversals without protest.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 6h

"Four legs good, two legs bad." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

Quote card: "Four legs good, two legs bad." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12h

Davis argues that prisons don't solve social problems but merely hide them, warehousing people discarded by a system that produces poverty and inequality.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12h

"The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) · #davis #abolition

Quote card: "The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 18h

Fanon argues that colonialism is established and maintained by violence, so its undoing cannot be a peaceful transition. It requires a forcible seizure of power by the colonized.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 18h

"Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization

Quote card: "Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Historical memory is political terrain. If rulers rewrite records, they script both legitimacy and what futures seem possible.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Who controls the past controls the future." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

Quote card: "Who controls the past controls the future." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The revolution’s ideals are inverted to justify hierarchy. Language is weaponized to make inequality sound like a principle.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

Quote card: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Mao's statement reflects the materialist view that state power ultimately rests on the control of armed force, a central tenet of his theory of protracted people's war.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." — Mao Zedong, Problems of War and Strategy (1938) · #mao #power

Quote card: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." — Mao Zedong, Problems of War and Strategy (1938).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Orwell’s slogans model doublethink: contradictions enforced as truth. Stability is maintained by demanding belief over evidence.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

Quote card: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Che insists that revolutionary struggle must be rooted in love for humanity, not in cold, mechanical dogma. This humanism is essential for building a new society.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965) · #che #revolution

Quote card: "The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A distributive principle for a higher phase of socialism: contribution by capacity, access by need, beyond market equivalence.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" — Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) · #marx #gotha

Quote card: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" — Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

hooks argues that patriarchy is a system of domination that everyone, regardless of gender, can participate in upholding. It is not simply 'men oppressing women.'

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Patriarchy has no gender." — bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) · #hooks #feminism

Quote card: "Patriarchy has no gender." — bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Engels distinguishes revolutionary overthrow from a gradual process where the state becomes obsolete after class distinctions disappear. It's a vision of post-capitalist administration without coercion.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"The state is not 'abolished,' it withers away." — Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878) · #engels #state

Quote card: "The state is not 'abolished,' it withers away." — Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A call for international solidarity against a global system. Marx argues that shared conditions create shared power across borders.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto

Quote card: "Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Kropotkin outlines a core principle of anarchist communism: the right to well-being for all, where society's resources are distributed based on need, not contribution.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal."…

Quote card: "We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal." — Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread (1892).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Gramsci describes a crisis of authority (hegemony) where the old order is failing but a new one hasn't solidified. This gap is fertile ground for dangerous phenomena as forces contend for power.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1930) · #gramsci #crisis

Quote card: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1930).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fanon identifies the struggle for land as central to decolonization, representing both material survival and the restoration of dignity and sovereignty.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization

Quote card: "For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Organization depends on shared analysis. For Lenin, theory orients practice, preventing spontaneity from dissolving into drift.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." — V. I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done? (1902) · #lenin #theory

Quote card: "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." — V. I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done? (1902).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A foundational statement of social constructivism, arguing that 'woman' is not a natural or essential category, but a social identity constructed through cultural norms and expectations.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) · #debeauvoir #feminism

Quote card: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Though likely a paraphrase, this quote captures Goldman's belief that revolution must encompass personal liberation, joy, and self-expression, not just political change.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." — Emma Goldman, (Attributed) (1900) · #goldman #anarchism

Quote card: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." — Emma Goldman, (Attributed) (1900).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Davis frames freedom not as a final destination but as an ongoing process of collective struggle against interconnected systems of oppression.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Freedom is a constant struggle." — Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2016) · #davis #freedom

Quote card: "Freedom is a constant struggle." — Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2016).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Orwell links liberty to the right to affirm basic facts. Totalitarianism seeks obedience that bends even arithmetic to power.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

Quote card: "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Federici argues that capitalism was built on the unpaid reproductive labor of women, making their bodies a central terrain of struggle against exploitation.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The body has been for women in capitalist society what the factory has been for male waged workers: the primary site of their exploitation and resistance." — Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (2004) · #federici #feminism

Quote card: "The body has been for women in capitalist society what the factory has been for male waged workers: the primary site of their exploitation and resistance." — Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (2004).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bookchin's core thesis of social ecology: ecological problems are rooted in social problems. Human hierarchy and domination must be dismantled to heal our relationship with nature.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human." — Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982) · #bookchin #ecology

Quote card: "The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human." — Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lenin argues that capitalism's need for new markets and resources inevitably leads to global expansion, monopoly, and conflict between imperialist powers.

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." — V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) · #lenin #imperialism

Quote card: "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." — V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916).

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rules begin absolute and end with exceptions for the rulers. Each edit normalizes privilege as ‘clarification.’

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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"No animal shall drink alcohol." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

Quote card: "No animal shall drink alcohol." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).

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