Joseph Stalin Quotes

The Socialist Party of the United States is unilaterally opposed to the system of exploitation and class rule which is upheld and strengthened by military power.

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

Overthrow the capitalist class.

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

Under all circumstances the main task of the working class is the overthrow of the capitalists in its own country.

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

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism.

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

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!

The struggle against imperialism develops ever more into the decisive struggle between capital and labor.

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

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

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

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.

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.

The Constituent Assembly sets for itself as a fundamental task the suppression of all forms of exploitation of man by man and the complete abolition of class distinctions in society. It aims to crush unmercifully the exploiter, to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and to bring about the triumph of Socialism throughout the world

In the society of to-day the means of production are a monopoly of the capitalistic class; the dependence of the working classes which results from this is the cause of misery and of servitude in all its forms.

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.

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

England, the country that turns whole nations into its proletarians … seems to be the rock against which the revolutionary waves break.

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.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system …. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.