Paul Lafargue Quotes

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

A revolutionary should neither look nor act like one to get ahead in Canada.

Communism was not only defined as the things that Marx and Lenin had advocated, but included anything that had the potential for change in the society.

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Patriots have been incapable of removing one brick from this structure by “working within the system.” … There are two paths open to those who love the great America of their forefathers.

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.

You can't just be a revolutionary for 40 or 50 years. That means compromising.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

I am imprisoned with a perception that will settle for nothing less than making a revolution in the consciousness of our time.

Workers thought that the moment was ripe to take possession once [and] for all the means of production. They armed for self-defense... and began to organize production on their own.... It was the right of property abolished in fact... it was a new regime, a new form of social life that was being ushered in. And the government stood by because it felt impotent to offer opposition.

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

Revolution is like a love story, When you are in love, your become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

Recorded history starts with a patriarchal revolution. Let it continue with the matriarchal counterrevolution that is the only hope for the survival of the human race.

… revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal

The outburst of sexual freedom in the '60s was bound to happen because the '50s were so oppressing. You had to live that way; women had to be like this - it was all locked into a false reality.

I grew up on misogynist, devil-worshipping heavy metal music, and then it was groups like The Clash and Public Enemy that reminded me that there were a different set of ideas that could be expressed with great music.

We're all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it's 1989. Time to get real.