El Socialista Quotes

Overthrow the capitalist class.

Peaceful surrender of power by the bourgeoisie is possible, if it is convinced that resistance is hopeless and if it prefers to save its skin. It is much more likely, of course, that even in small states socialism will not be achieved without civil war, and for that reason the only program of international Social-Democracy must be recognition of civil war, though violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

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

Many workers already realize that the rule of the Socialist or Communist party will be only the concealed form of the rule of the bourgeois class in which the exploitation and suppression of the working class remains.

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

The socialist proletariat rejects any responsibility for the events being brought about by a blinded, a maddened ruling class …. All responsibility falls to the wielders of power today! It is "to be or not to be!" World-history is the world-court!

Ever greater grows the mass of the proletariat, ever vaster the army of the unemployed, ever sharper the contrast between oppressors and oppressed, ever fiercer that war of classes between bourgeoisie and proletariat which divides modern society into two hostile camps and is the common characteristic of ever industrial country.

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it.

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

Workers! Leave the Socialist Party. It is your enemy and ours.

Every capitalist is your enemy. Every working man is your friend.

Only idiots think that the proletariat will win a majority right away. First we topple the bourgeoisie. Then we seize power. That is the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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

England, the country that turns whole nations into its proletarians … seems to be the rock against which the revolutionary waves break.

The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental.

If every one of those good words - liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights - has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?

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

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.

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

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.