#revolution

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#awareness #critical #essential #increasingly #oppressed

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal. ↗

— Friedrick Engels

#democracy #engelism #free-thinker #free-thought #freedom

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#because #building #communist #communist party #finish

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#conditions #driving #duties #end #equal

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. ↗

— Jean Genet

#ideology #interpretation #liberation #main #man

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#chaos #crystallize #forms #i #i believe

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#after #development #due #easy #long

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You ↗

— Brooke Bida

#ann-anarchsit #changeagents #libertarian-ann #love #new-age

Revolutions are not made for export. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#made #revolutions

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#blind #dangerous #democratic #development #effect