On this day in 1899, the US started what became known as the “first Vietnam” when it began colonizing the Philippines. During the “Philippine-American War”, up to 1.4 million Filipinos were massacred.
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The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
Che Guevara
Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution (1960 )
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Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution (1960 )
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V.I. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya at the Kremlin wall on Red Square during the May Day demonstration of workers. May 1, 1919
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It is not he who makes no mistakes that is intelligent. There are no such men, nor can there be. It is he whose errors are not very grave and who is able to rectify them easily and quickly that is intelligent.
Vladimir Lenin
“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder
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The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
Che Guevara
On Revolutionary Medicine
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
Marx, German Ideology (1845)
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Today is popular Black singer Bob Marley’s 80th birthday. Despite Marley’s popularity, the CIA’s alleged attempt on his life remains largely unknown. The shooting at his home in Kingston in 1976 happened against a backdrop of CIA sponsored destabilization of Jamaica following the election of the social democratic Michael Manley, who talked tough against the IMF and was close to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Read on to find out more about the shooting of the legendary singer who once sang “Rasta don't work for no CIA”.
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We shall reply to this by quoting two lines from a Russian fable, ‘Eagles may at times fly lower than hens but hens can never rise to the height of eagles'. [Rosa ] in spite of her mistakes [...] was and remains for us an eagle. And not only will Communists all over the world cherish her memory, but her biography and her complete works will serve as useful manuals for training many generations of communists all over the world. ‘Since August 4, 1914, German social-democracy has become a stinking corpse' ‑ this statement will make Rosa Luxemburg's name famous in the history of the international working class movement. And, of course, in the backyard of the working class movement, among the dung heaps, hens like Paul Levi, Scheidemann, Kautsky and all their fraternity will cackle over the mistakes committed by the great Communist".
V. I. Lenin
(Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 33, p. 210, Notes of a Publicist, Vol. 33).
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V. I. Lenin
(Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 33, p. 210, Notes of a Publicist, Vol. 33).
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