Radical Action Quotes

Comrades! The revolt by the five kulak administrative regions must be suppressed without mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this, because we have now before us the "final decisive battle" against the kulaks. We need to set an example. You need to hang (most definitely hang, so that the public sees) at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, the bloodsuckers. This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out: let's choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks. Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this. Yours, Lenin…. P.S. Find some of the tougher people for this.

No people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must being in blood, whatever may answer afterward.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

If we can’t sit at the table of democracy, then we’ll knock the fucking legs off. But before we tear it completely down, they will move to build a better one, rather than see this one destroyed.

If it takes a bloodbath, then let's get it over with.

Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up like Newt Gingrich wants to do.

And when in doubt, be extreme.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

Patriots have been incapable of removing one brick from this structure by “working within the system.” … There are two paths open to those who love the great America of their forefathers.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

Direct action means resort to non-constitutional methods that can take any form which many suit the conditions under which we live. We cannot eliminate any methods.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

A shocking event plus utopian imagination plus movement muscle, that's how we get a real leap.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.

Until we apply terror to speculators --- shooting on the spot --- we won’t get anywhere.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence