George Jackson Quotes

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.

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

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

The democracy of the Western countries is the predecessor of Marxism, which would be unthinkable without democracy.

Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

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

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

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

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

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

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?

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

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

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.

People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was that it did not bring wealth to the Portuguese. But it brought language, ideas. You'd go to the fish market, and all the women who were selling fish would call each other fascist, communist.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.