Fidel Castro Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

Harmony? No! Class war! Hatred to the death for the criminal bourgeoisie!

The problem is capitalism. The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism.

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.

There is no alternative to class struggle.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

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

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.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

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

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

Overthrow the capitalist class.

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

Under all circumstances the main task of the working class is the overthrow of the capitalists in its own country.

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

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

We socialists live to some extent in symbiosis with capitalism.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak