Anton Pannekoek Quotes

The masses of the working-people of Scotland have read history, and are no revolutionary levelers.

Regardless of the degree of class consciousness of their members, the trade unions are, by their very nature, driven on to the revolutionary goal.

Spain is a republic of workers of all classes.

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

Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

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

This trial is a fight between capital and labor, of which this is but a manifestation up here in the woods.

The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown

Fight labor's demands to the last ditch and there will come a time when it seizes the whole of power, makes itself sovereign and takes what it used to ask.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

There is and always has been in an advanced stage of wealth and civilization, a conflict between labor and capital.

Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence.

The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and the idlers, the supporters and the supported, the honest and the dishonest. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the unpaid labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. All laborers should be brothers.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

There is no alternative to class struggle.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

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

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

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

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.