On this day, 3 October 1896, designer, artist and socialist William Morris died of tuberculosis at age 62.
In describing his political goals in 1894, he wrote: "a brief sketch of what I am looking forward to as a Communist: to sum up, it is Freedom from artificial disabilities; the development of each man's capacities for the benefit of each and all. Abolition of waste by taking care that one man does not get more than he can use, and another less than he needs; consequent condition of general well-being and fulness of life, neither idle and vacant, nor over burdened with toil."

Working Class History

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The state arises where, when and insofar as class antagonism objectively cannot be reconciled. And, conversely, the existence of the state proves that the class antagonisms are irreconcilable.

Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution

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The working-man is made to feel at every moment that the bourgeoisie treats him as a chattel, as its property, and for this reason, if for no other, he must come forward as its enemy.

Friedrich Engels
The Condition of the Working Class in England

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Social chauvinists are our class opponents, the bourgeois among the working-class movement. They represent a stratum, groups, and layers of workers who have been objectively bribed by the bourgeoisie and who help their bourgeoisie to plunder and strangle small and weak peoples, to fight over the division of capitalist spoils

Vladimir Lenin
The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution

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Fidel reads Che's letter

The historic first Central Committee meeting of the newly formed Communist Party of Cuba was held in Havana on October 3, 1965.

At that meeting at the Charlie Chaplin (now Karl Marx) Theatre Fidel Castro gave a famous speech in praise of the unification of all the Revolutionary forces under the banner of socialism and under a vanguard, explicitly Communist party.

He also ended months of speculation about the location of Che. Che had gone to fight for revolution in the Congo months prior and had written a farewell letter on April 1 to Fidel and the Cuban people. Fidel read this moving and powerful letter for the first time at this meeting.

Here we republish two stirring excerpts from the speech as well as the letter itself:
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But we did not build this society in order to restrict personal liberty but in order that the human individual may feel really free. We built it for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

J. V. Stalin

Interview Between J. Stalin andRoy Howard

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Democracy under capitalism is capitalist democracy, the democracy of the exploiting minority, based on the restriction of the rights of exploited majority and directed against this majority. Only under the proletarian dictatorship are real liberties for the exploited and real participation of the proletarians and peasants in governing the country possible. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, democracy is proletarian democracy, the democracy of the exploited majority, based on the restriction of the rights of the exploiting minority and directed against this minority.

J. V. Stalin
The Foundations of Leninism

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Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them? But this will have no effect upon them at all. Communists do not in the least idealise the methods of violence. But they, the Communists, do not want to be taken by surprise, they cannot count on the old world voluntarily departing from the stage, they see that the old system is violently defending itself, and that is why the Communists say to the working class : Answer violence with violence; do all you can to prevent the old dying order from crushing you, do not permit it to put manacles on your hands, on the hands with which you will overthrow the old system. As you see, the Communists regard the substitution of one social system for another, not simply as a spontaneous and peaceful process, but as a complicated, long and violent process. Communists cannot ignore facts.

J. V. #Stalin
MARXISM VERSUS LIBERALISM

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