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For my "US and the World" class, I am writing a paper about the working conditions in the 19th Century. For a change of pace, I'm going to write it from a distinctly Communist/Marxist slant.

I'm going to open the paper with a communist quote, be it Lenin, Marx, Engels, Trosky, or even Mao! I need a good commie quote! I hope you commies can provide this prole with some good quotage!

What is it with all these students looking for NS to write their homework for them?

Sheesh. Read a book.

I've got a whole book full of Mao Quotes...but quotes aren't the thing. What you want is whole essays:

http://www.marxists.org/

And hope the NSA isn't looking into your PC right now...;)

What is it with all these students looking for NS to write their homework for them?

Sheesh. Read a book.

I just need a damn quote. I thought you commies were all about sharing? :p

What is it with all these students looking for NS to write their homework for them?

Sheesh. Read a book.
It's hard to find good quotes in a book. THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE!



The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally. -- Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)

i'd deal mainly with marx and engels. trotsky, lenin and especially mao were prodominately 20th century figures their references to and political impressions of 19th century condition will tend to be sparse and scattered while that's all the m&e were about.

What is it with all these students looking for NS to write their homework for them?

Sheesh. Read a book.

I agree. This guy is already on the internet, why dosnt he look it up himself?

I need a good commie quote! I hope you commies can provide this prole with some good quotage!

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty - Marx.

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty - Marx.


The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally. -- Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)


Those are both very good quotes. I can incorperate both of them into my paper.

"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we shall hang them" - Lenin.

I don't know if he actually said that though.

I got a good one.

"If you pretend to pay us, we pretend to work"
-Soviet saying

I got a good one.

"If you pretend to pay us, we pretend to work"
-Soviet saying

I need something that's actually GOOD about communism!

you have nothing but your chains to lose and you have the world to gain. Workers of the world unite! - Marx, the Communist Manifesto.

I'm going to open the paper with a communist quote, be it Lenin, Marx, Engels, Trosky, or even Mao! I need a good commie quote! I hope you commies can provide this prole with some good quotage!

You want a good Commie quote?

"The unexamined life is not worth living." -- Socrates


Wait ... you say Socrates wasn't Communist? Think again, my friend.

"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Proletarians of all countries, unite!"
- Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html)

I've got a whole book full of Mao Quotes...but quotes aren't the thing. What you want is whole essays:

http://www.marxists.org/

And hope the NSA isn't looking into your PC right now...;)

I hope they are.

I hope they are.
Now that's not nice...

Oh yeah, and BUMP.

I hope they are.
Pfft, marxists.org was the standard text back when I was in high school and studying the October Revolution. Now the Anarchist FAQ,http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/, there's something that may get you into trouble. It's non-Marxist though so may be of limited use. Still, its well organised and has HEAPS of stuff from Goldman, Kropotkin, DeCleyre, Bakunin (why do I always want to type Bukharin... eugh) and other historical anarchists, aka non-marxist communists, neo-marxists, anarcho-communists, libertarian communists or whatever else we're known as. :P

Also there are heaps of Che um... fansites... that should have lots of info.

Religion is the Opiate of the masses

Karl Marx

Winner's don't do drugs

The FBI

Just an amusing quote I found on the 'net. On a serious note, newer editions of Das Kapital etc may well have quotes from their pages on their backs you can use - I know of several history texts that have that.

"We will bury you."

-Nikita Khruschev

Religion is the Opiate of the masses

Karl Marx


Except for the fact he never said that.

Try "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." instead.

you have nothing but your chains to lose and you have the world to gain. Workers of the world unite! - Marx, the Communist Manifesto.

Except for the fact that he never said that.

Try "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!" instead.

It should also be noted that The Communist Manifesto wasn't written solely by Marx, but in partnership with Engels.

Written thon essay yet?

We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism. – Lenin, 1918

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/jan/14.htm