Enver Hoxha Quotes

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

There is no alternative to class struggle.

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

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

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

We are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat.

All systems of political administration or governmental machinery are but the reflex of the economic forms which underlie them

In Russia bureaucracy as the ruling class is master of production and produce, and the Russian workers are an exploited class.

I am against the use of capitalist mechanisms to build socialism.

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

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

Socialism has not struck root very deeply in the United States, the very heart of the capitalist world, and that the workers there have not yet succeeded in organizing an independent political party on the English model.

There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set of future consultants and investment bankers. At least the Trotskyists cared about the important stuff.

The accumulated experience of mankind in the struggle against exploitation, synthesized in Marxism, enabled the Mozambican revolutionary movement to benefit from and absorb that experience.

To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.