Jack London Quotes

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

If the Kaiser does not abdicate the social revolution is inevitable. I do not want it—in fact I hate it like sin.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Overthrow the capitalist class.

Harmony? No! Class war! Hatred to the death for the criminal bourgeoisie!

The starting-point in the brochure is not right. To my idea you are mistaken in your judgment regarding the analogy of the West-European revolution with the Russian one, regarding the conditions of the West-European revolution, that is to say the class-relations- and this leads you to mistake the cause, from which this Left Wing, the opposition, originates …. Therefore the brochure SEEMS to be right, as long as your starting-point is assumed. If, however (as it should be), your starting point is rejected, the entire brochure is wrong. As all your mistaken, and partly mistaken, judgments converge …

Peoples, hear the signal! Arise, for the last battle The International Fights for the Rights of Man! No higher being can save us, No God, no Kaiser, nor tribune Saving us from misery we ourselves alone must do!

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 have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.

Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.

His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

Socialism is a monster which will die.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

The powerful don't make revolutions