Buenaventura Durruti Quotes

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

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.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

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

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

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?

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.

We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

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

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.

Our battle is against the bourgeoisie as the enemy of German Socialism and the saboteur of national freedom.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

Workers! Leave the Socialist Party. It is your enemy and ours.