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In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.

Cornel West

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A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal system. We are revolutionaries. We convict from a revolutionary passion.

Ernesto Che Guevara

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The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Irving Berlin

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Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

Rosa Luxemburg

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... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

Ernesto Cardenal

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... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness.

Ernesto Cardenal

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LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE

Ernesto Cardenal

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Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Vladimir Lenin

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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.