Mao Zedong Quotes

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

Overthrow the capitalist class.

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

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism

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

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

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

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

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

Every year humanity takes a step towards Communism. Maybe not you, but … your grandson will surely be a Communist.

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

Marxist literature dealt with wage exploitation, exploitation of women by men, the exploitation of people of color by white peoples, the exploitation of colonial countries by imperialist countries. And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

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

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Peaceful surrender of power by the bourgeoisie is possible, if it is convinced that resistance is hopeless and if it prefers to save its skin. It is much more likely, of course, that even in small states socialism will not be achieved without civil war, and for that reason the only program of international Social-Democracy must be recognition of civil war, though violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.

The accumulated experience of mankind in the struggle against exploitation, synthesized in Marxism, enabled the Mozambican revolutionary movement to benefit from and absorb that experience.

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.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.