Herman Gorter Quotes

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Only idiots think that the proletariat will win a majority right away. First we topple the bourgeoisie. Then we seize power. That is the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.

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

Overthrow the capitalist class.

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

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

Any member of the party who … advocates crime, sabotage, or other methods of violence as a weapon of the working class to aid in its emancipation, shall be expelled from membership of the party.

Organize, transport your class antagonisms from the economic sphere, where they are perpetrated against you, where they alone can succeed. Take power, become the master of the state. Then, instead of being subject to capitalist law you will make socialist law.

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

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?

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

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.

For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

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

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

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

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

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.

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.

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

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