“What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal autocracies is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura. Fascism offers a beguiling mix of revolutionary-sounding mass appeals and reactionary class politics. The Nazi party s full name was the National Socialist German Workers Party, a left-sounding name. As already noted, the SA storm troopers had a militant share-the-wealth strain in their ranks that was suppressed by Hitler after he took state power.”
“The more that injustice, exploitation, inequality, unemployment, poverty, hunger, and misery prevail in human society, the more Che s stature will grow. The more that the power of imperialism, hegemonism, domination, and interventionism grow, to the detriment of the most sacred rights of the peoples-especially the weak, backward, and poor peoples who for centuries were colonies of the West and sources of slave labor-the more the values Che defended will be upheld. The more that abuses, selfishness, and alienation exist; the more that Indians, ethnic minorities, women, and immigrants suffer dis crimination; the more that children are bought and sold for sex or forced into the workforce in their hundreds of millions; the more that ignorance, unsanitary conditions, insecurity, and homelessness prevail-the more Che s deeply humanistic message will stand out. The more that corrupt, demagogic, and hypocritical politicians exist anywhere, the more Che s example of a pure, revolutionary, and consistent human being will come through. The more cowards, opportunists, and traitors there are on the face of the earth, the more Che s personal courage and revolutionary integrity will be admired. The more that others lack the ability to fulfill their duty, the more Che s iron willpower will be admired. The more that some individuals lack the most basic self-respect, the more Che s sense of honor and dignity will be admired. The more that skeptics abound, the more Che s faith in man will be admired. The more pessimists there are, the more Che s optimism will be admired. The more vacillators there are, the more Che s audacity will be admired. The more that loafers squander the product of the labor of others, the more Che s austerity, his spirit of study and work, will be admired.”
“Stand unbending against inhumanity, without weapons, without violence, only then will your revolution produce a better society.”
“They talked about the way society is in fact controlled through the imposition of false needs, and how criticism of society is effectively and systematically suppressed by being infiltrated into institutions. They spoke of a closed technological society which creates a new totalitarianism, and in it there is no place for those outside the process of production. About the fact that the only way out of the comfortable, rationalized, undemocratic freedom offered by developed industrial civilization is through rebellion. About the fact that revolution is possible only through awareness but that awareness in itself demands revolution.”
“Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.”
“Bakunin perceived the authoritarianism inherent in a so-called dictatorship of the proletariat. The state, he insisted, however popular in form, would always serve as a weapon of exploitation and enslavement. He predicted the inevitable formation of a new privileged minority of savants and experts, whose superior knowledge would enable them to use the state as an instrument to rule over the uneducated manual laborers in the fields and factories. The citizens of the new people s state would be rudely awakened from their self-delusion to discover that they had become the slaves, the playthings, and the victims of a new group of ambitious men. The only way the common people could escape this lamentable fate was to make the revolution themselves, total and universal, ruthless and chaotic, elemental and unrestrained. It is necessary to abolish completely, in principle and in practice, everything that might be called political power, Bakunin concluded, for so long as political power exists, there will always be rulers and ruled, masters and slaves, exploiter and exploited .”
“My struggle is to end all struggles.”
“If you re afraid of black nationalism, you re afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.”
“Revolutions are fought to get control of land, to remove the absentee landlord and gain control of the land and the institutions that flow from that land.”
“Once you ve given something away, history has shown, that whatever you gave, is rarely given back voluntarely. Remember, something includes your right to eat what you like, say what you think, go where you please or choose to associate with.”
“revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow.”
“To the civilized revolutionary, not a single human life is expendable, even that of the oppressor, whereas to the mindless terrorist, even the loss of innocent lives is acceptable in the pursuit of their mission.”
“No government is my authority, no monarchy is my master. I am here to civilize the governments and abolish the monarchies.”
“Reform is not a question of capacity, it s a question of willingness.”
“There is no revolution, there is only life.”
“Styrka som används för förtryck är våld, styrka som används för att försvara de svaga är rättvisa.”
“Indifference is acceptable from a vegetable, not from a human being.”