Ho Chi Minh Quotes

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system …. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

If the result of so many sacrifices was that the capitalists remain in control, what was the point of the revolution?

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

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

The Socialist Party of the United States is unilaterally opposed to the system of exploitation and class rule which is upheld and strengthened by military power.

‘Down with imperialism!’ ‘Down with the warlords!’ ‘Down with the corrupt officials!’ ‘Down with the local tyrants and evil gentry!’ -- these political slogans have grown wings, they have found their way to the young, the middle-aged and the old, to the women and children in countless villages, they have penetrated into their minds and are on their lips. For instance, watch a group of children at play. If one gets angry with another, if he glares, stamps his foot and shakes his fist, you will then immediately hear from the other the shrill cry of "Down with imperialism!

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism

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

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

The first liberating revolutions never destroyed the large landholding powers that always constituted a reactionary force and upheld the principle of servitude on the land.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory.

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

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

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Our battle is against the bourgeoisie as the enemy of German Socialism and the saboteur of national freedom.

The day of reckoning came, and that day was the Terror. The heirs of those who toiled made their account with the heirs of those who played.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence