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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 15h

In a higher phase of communist society, ... - only then then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! -- Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 22h

This struggle must be organised, according to "all the rules of the art", by people who are professionally engaged in revolutionary activity. -- Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, "The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries" (1904)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party. -- Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Religion is the opium of the masses. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. -- Marx, The Grundrisse (1857)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the leaders seek only to preserve themselves, that is what they become; preserves, dried preserves. -- Trotsky, Some Questions on American Problems (1940)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. -- Mikhail Bakunin

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. -- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 15 (1867)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Question everything, accept nothing. -- Quoted by Ethan Skyler; used in 2002 in reference to Galileo, para 9 [1]

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is the duty of the revolution to put an end to compromise, and to put an end to compromise means taking the path of socialist revolution. -- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime. -- Max Stirner

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women -- Thomas Sankara

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. -- Max Stirner

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not at all our task to descend to the level of the "working masses." -- Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, "The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries" (1904)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is untrue that revolutionary art can be created only by workers. Just because the revolution is a working-class revolution, it releases - to repeat what was said before - very little working-class energy for art. -- Trotsky, Communist Policy Toward Art (1923)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As Prometheus, having stolen fire from heaven, begins to build houses and to settle upon the earth, so philosophy, expanded to be the whole world, turns against the world of appearance. The same now with the philosophy of Hegel. -- Marx, Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy, 1839

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Where there is authority, there is no freedom. -- Peter Kropotkin

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In all mass movements we must make a basic investigation and analysis of the number of active supporters, opponents and neutrals and must not decide problems subjectively and without basis. -- "Methods of Work of Party Committees" (March 13, 1949), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 380.

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people. -- "We Must Learn to Do Economic Work" (January 10, 1945), Mao Zedong Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 241.

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment. -- Engels, Outlines of Political Economy (1844)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation. -- Peter Kropotkin

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. -- Peter Kropotkin

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all. -- Lenin, Better fewer, but Better (1923)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Afghans are a brave, hardy, and independent race; they follow pastoral or agricultural occupations only ... With them, war is an excitement and relief from the monotonous occupation of industrial pursuits. -- Engels, On Afghanistan (1857)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The democratic regime is the most aristocratic way of ruling. It is possible only to a rich nation. -- Trotsky, Discussions on the Transitional Program (1938)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless. -- Lenin, The Development of Capitaism in Russia, The "The Mission of Capitalism" (1899)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, we must fight, struggle, be ready for defeats and disappointments, but once we have consciously set our feet on the right road, with a clear vision of the task ahead, nothing can daunt us and all causes for pessimism disappear. -- M.N. Roy, On Non-Violence and the Masses (1923)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser. -- Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, "The Plan For an All-Russia Political Newspaper" (1904)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love -- Che Guevara

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses. -- Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is not done in modern socialist parties to talk or even think about the significance of this idea, - the "withering away" of the state. -- Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women -- Thomas Sankara

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. -- Karl Marx

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor have no food, they called me a Communist. -- Camara

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital. -- V.I. Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Where there is authority, there is no freedom. -- Peter Kropotkin

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If the leaders seek only to preserve themselves, that is what they become; preserves, dried preserves. -- Trotsky, Some Questions on American Problems (1940)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are two big facts which have set a new stamp on working class life. The one is the advent of the eight-hour working day; the other, the prohibition of the sale of vodka. -- Trotsky, Vodka, the Church and the Cinema (1923)

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Quotes of the left @leftquotes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations. -- Lenin, Socialism and War (1915)

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