Louis C. Fraina Quotes

Be it Resolved, That we urgently call upon the wage earning class to arm itself in order to be able to put forth against their exploiters such an argument which alone can be effective: Violence.

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!

A bourgeois-and-workers' revolution is a betrayal of the working class

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

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

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Overthrow the capitalist class.

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

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 socialist proletariat rejects any responsibility for the events being brought about by a blinded, a maddened ruling class …. All responsibility falls to the wielders of power today! It is "to be or not to be!" World-history is the world-court!

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

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

Am I allowed to suggest that we owe much to these stubborn and sectarian people, those indefatigable strikers who take over our factories and bring disorder to our streets, these obstinate creatures who ceaselessly fought for reforms while fantasizing of the Revolution, these Marxists who, marching against the current of History, disturbed the complacent sleep of capitalism? … Communism is dead. Let us rejoice.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

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.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.