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Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 3h

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

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 3h

"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 · 9h

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.

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 9h

"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 · 15h

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

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 15h

"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 · 21h

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.

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 21h

"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 · 1d

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

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

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.'

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

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.

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

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 · 1d

"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 · 2d

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 · 2d

"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 · 2d

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.

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 2d

"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 · 2d

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

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 2d

"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 · 2d

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

Leftist Literature Quotes @leftistquotes.bsky.social · 2d

"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 · 3d

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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