Johann Most Quotes

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

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

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

If the result of so many sacrifices was that the capitalists remain in control, what was the point of the revolution?

Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

A repressed minority is an angry one, which may ultimately threaten the government's stability.

‘Down with imperialism!’ ‘Down with the warlords!’ ‘Down with the corrupt officials!’ ‘Down with the local tyrants and evil gentry!’ -- these political slogans have grown wings, they have found their way to the young, the middle-aged and the old, to the women and children in countless villages, they have penetrated into their minds and are on their lips. For instance, watch a group of children at play. If one gets angry with another, if he glares, stamps his foot and shakes his fist, you will then immediately hear from the other the shrill cry of "Down with imperialism!

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

Be committed to … smashing feudalists, conservatives, and imperialists who are "reactionaries".

We find—in the case of political affairs—that the most servile submission to privileged classes, and the grossest abuses of power by these, have been the precursors of the wildest ebullitions of popular fury,—of the overthrow indiscriminately of ancient institutions, good and bad.

The first liberating revolutions never destroyed the large landholding powers that always constituted a reactionary force and upheld the principle of servitude on the land.

They are as blind to some of the tendencies of the time as the French Noblese was before the French Revolution.

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

The powerful don't make revolutions

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.