Anton Pannekoek Quotes

I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.

In Russia bureaucracy as the ruling class is master of production and produce, and the Russian workers are an exploited class.

Overthrow the capitalist class.

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

Today, our party is small and the parties of the capitalists are large and strong, but the day will surely come when the Communist Party will be the only party in the United States.

The identification of the intellectuals with the revolutionary movement is dependent … on their complete rift with bourgeois ideology and liberalism …. The relationship of the intellectuals as a group with the working class is essentially an alliance. But the alliance can be established only on the … unadulterated principles of Marxism-Leninism.

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

Ever greater grows the mass of the proletariat, ever vaster the army of the unemployed, ever sharper the contrast between oppressors and oppressed, ever fiercer that war of classes between bourgeoisie and proletariat which divides modern society into two hostile camps and is the common characteristic of ever industrial country.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

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

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

Every capitalist is your enemy. Every working man is your friend.

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

Only idiots think that the proletariat will win a majority right away. First we topple the bourgeoisie. Then we seize power. That is the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The boycott, which the bourgeoisie regards with sentimental tenderness when directed against the trade of its commercial rival, it considers as a crime when employed by the workers in defense of their livelihood.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it.

The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

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