Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes

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.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

Overthrow the capitalist class.

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

All past history with the exception of the primitive stages was the history of class struggles.

The struggle against imperialism develops ever more into the decisive struggle between capital and labor.

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

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

The history of all hither-to-existing society is the history of class struggles.

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?

There is no alternative to class struggle.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

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

I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.

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.

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

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!

Political struggles are due, in the last analysis, to class struggles; these struggles increase in scope and seriousness as capital becomes concentrated …

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

If you turn your people into bourgeois, you also turn them into pacifists.

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

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.