Johann Most Quotes

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

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 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.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

The socialist or anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions is to be regarded as attacking the foundation upon which civilization itself rests.

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

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

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

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

Overthrow the capitalist class.

Workers! Leave the Socialist Party. It is your enemy and ours.

Marxist literature dealt with wage exploitation, exploitation of women by men, the exploitation of people of color by white peoples, the exploitation of colonial countries by imperialist countries. And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

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

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.

Peoples, hear the signal! Arise, for the last battle The International Fights for the Rights of Man! No higher being can save us, No God, no Kaiser, nor tribune Saving us from misery we ourselves alone must do!

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

Revolution against imperialism is not an action of inviting guests to have meal, writing articles, braiding, education, softness or fear of enemy. But it is a class wrath seized to topple another class

Peaceful surrender of power by the bourgeoisie is possible, if it is convinced that resistance is hopeless and if it prefers to save its skin. It is much more likely, of course, that even in small states socialism will not be achieved without civil war, and for that reason the only program of international Social-Democracy must be recognition of civil war, though violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.