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🤖 Bot Account Quotes are stolen from marxists.org. Currently includes quotes from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Mao. Errors? Suggestions? Let me know.

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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 13h
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 13h
"The price or money-form of commodities is, like their form of value generally, a form quite distinct from their palpable bodily form; it is, therefore, a purely ideal or mental form" 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1867 📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 18h
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 18h
"We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1915 📚: Socialism and War
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Capital is money: Capital is commodities. ... Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1867 📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter 4
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Marxist philosophy holds that the most important problem does not lie in understanding the laws of the objective world and thus being able to explain it, but in applying the knowledge of these laws actively to change the world." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1937 📚: On Practice
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"In all forms of society there is one specific kind of production which predominates over the rest, ... a general illumination which bathes all the other colours and modifies their particularity." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1857 📚: The Grundrisse
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Nothing is more dangerous in politics, especially in a critical period, than to repeat general formulas without examining their social content." 👤: Leon Trotsky 🕑: 1934 📚: Whither France?
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism." 👤: Marx & Engels 🕑: 1848 📚: Communist Manifesto
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1917 📚: April Theses
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Not only can we manage very well without the interference of the capitalist class in the great industries of the country, but that their interference is becoming more and more a nuisance." 👤: Friedrich Engels 🕑: 1881 📚: Social Classes - Necessary and Superfluous
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"We the Chinese nation have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1935 📚: Selected Works, Vol. I
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"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." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1923 📚: Better fewer, but Better
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalist to quell the revolt of specialized labor." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1847 📚: Poverty of Philosophy
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1949 📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Nature is the proof of dialectics, and it must be said for modern science that it has furnished this proof with very rich materials increasing daily." 👤: Friedrich Engels 🕑: 1877 📚: Anti-Dühring
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Our mutual value is for us the value of our mutual objects. Hence for us man himself is mutually of no value." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1844 📚: Comment on James Mill
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"[...] I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1920 📚: The Tasks of the Youth Leagues
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"It is particularly necessary to arouse in all who participate in practical work, or are preparing to take up that work, discontent with the amateurism prevailing among us and an unshakable determination to rid ourselves of it." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1901 📚: What Is To Be Done?
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"This struggle must be organised, according to “all the rules of the art”, by people who are professionally engaged in revolutionary activity." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1901 📚: What Is To Be Done?
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned ..." 👤: Marx & Engels 🕑: 1848 📚: Communist Manifesto
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"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." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1949 📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"What we need is an enthusiastic but calm state of mind and intense but orderly work." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1936 📚: Selected Works, Vol. I
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"When we look at a thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, and once we cross the threshold, we must grasp the essence of the thing; this is the only reliable and scientific method of analysis." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1930 📚: Selected Works, Vol. I
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1845 📚: Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 2
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"It is man's social being that determines his thinking. Once the correct ideas characteristic of the advanced class are grasped by the masses, these ideas turn into a material force which changes society and changes the world." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1963 📚: Where Do Correct ideas Come from?
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Lenin Bot @lenin-bot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalist to quell the revolt of specialized labor." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1847 📚: Poverty of Philosophy
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