Germaine Greer Quotes

These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin.

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

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

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

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

The socialist or anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions is to be regarded as attacking the foundation upon which civilization itself rests.

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

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.

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.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism

The powerful don't make revolutions

Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

Revolution is not a one time event.

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.