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{{LQuote|Throughout the civilised world the teachings of Marx evoke the utmost hostility and hatred of all bourgeois science (both official and liberal), which regards Marxism as a kind of “pernicious sect”. And no other attitude is to be expected, for there can be no “impartial” social science in a society based on class struggle. In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naïve as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers’ wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital.|[[Library:The three sources and three component parts of Marxism|The three sources and three component parts of Marxism]]}}
* Throughout the civilised world the teachings of Marx evoke the utmost hostility and hatred of all bourgeois science (both official and liberal), which regards Marxism as a kind of “pernicious sect”. And no other attitude is to be expected, for there can be no “impartial” social science in a society based on class struggle. In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naïve as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers’ wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital. ([[Library:The three sources and three component parts of Marxism|The three sources and three component parts of Marxism]])
* Don’t whine, comrades, we are bound to win, for we are right. (As cited by [[Stalin]] in [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/01/28.htm this work [MIA link<nowiki>]</nowiki>])


{{LQuote|To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament – this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.|[[Library:The state and revolution|The state and revolution]]: [[Library:The state and revolution#Abolition_of_parliamentarism|Abolition of parliamentarism]]}}
== On bourgeois dictatorship ==


{{LQuote|Don’t whine, comrades, we are bound to win, for we are right.|As cited by [[Stalin]] in [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/01/28.htm this work [MIA link<nowiki>]</nowiki>]}}
* To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament – this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics. ([[Library:The state and revolution|The state and revolution]]: [[Library:The state and revolution#Abolition of parliamentarism|Abolition of parliamentarism]])


== Quotes on materialism ==
== On Trotsky ==
{{LQuote|1. Things exist independently of our consciousness, independently of our perceptions, outside of us, for it is beyond doubt that alizarin existed in coal tar yesterday and it is equally beyond doubt that yesterday we knew nothing of the existence of this alizarin and received no sensations from it.{{br}}
 
2. There is definitely no difference in principle between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself, and there can be no such difference. The only difference is between what is known and what is not yet known. And philosophical inventions of specific boundaries between the one and the other, inventions to the effect that the thing-in-itself is “beyond” phenomena (Kant), or that we can and must fence ourselves off by some philosophical partition from the problem of a world which in one part or another is still unknown but which exists outside us (Hume)—all this is the sheerest nonsense, Schrulle, crotchet, invention.{{br}}
* Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. And these gentlemen do not stand on ceremony where the Party is concerned. (''The right of nations to self-determination'': The 1903 Programme and its liquidators (1914), Collected Works, vol. 20, p. 448-449)
3. In the theory of knowledge, as in every other branch of science, we must think dialectically, that is, we must not regard our knowledge as ready-made and unalterable, but must determine how knowledge emerges from ignorance, how incomplete, inexact knowledge becomes more complete and more exact.|[[Library:Materialism and empirio-criticism|Materialism and empirio-criticism]]: [[Library:Materialism and empirio-criticism#The “thing-in-itself,” or V. Chernov refutes Frederich Engels|The “thing-in-itself,” or V. Chernov refutes Frederich Engels]]}}
* Trotsky behaves like a despicable careerist and factionalist of the Ryazanov-and-co type. Either equality on the editorial board, subordination to the central committee and no one’s transfer to Paris except Trotsky’s (the scoundrel, he wants to ‘fix up’ the whole rascally crew of ‘Pravda’ at our expense!) – or a break with this swindler and an exposure of him in the CO. He pays lip-service to the Party and behaves worse than any other of the factionalists. (''Letter to G. Zinoviev'', 1909, Collected Works, vol. 34, p. 399-400)
* It is impossible to argue with Trotsky on the merits of the issue, because Trotsky holds no views whatever. We can and should argue with confirmed liquidators and otzovists, but it is no use arguing with a man whose game is to hide the errors of both these trends; in his case the thing to do is to expose him as a diplomat of the smallest calibre. (''Trotsky's diplomacy and a certain party platform'', Collected Works, vol. 17, p. 362)
* Needless to say, this explanation is highly flattering to Trotsky, to all five groups abroad, and to the liquidators. Trotsky is very fond of using, with the learned air of the expert, pompous and high-sounding phrases to explain historical phenomena in a way that is flattering to Trotsky. (''Disruption of unity under cover of outcries for unity'', Collected Works, vol. 20, pp. 333-334)


== Quotes about Lenin ==
== Quotes about Lenin ==
{{LQuote|Lenin walks around the world.
Lenin walks around the world.
 
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
 
Nor does barbed wire scar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
 
Lenin walks around the world.
Nor does barbed wire scar him.
Black, brown, and white receive him.
 
Language is no barrier.
 
The strangest tongues believe him.
Lenin walks around the world.
 
Lenin walks around the world.
Black, brown, and white receive him.
The sun sets like a scar.
 
Between the darkness and the dawn
Language is no barrier.
There rises a red star.
 
[https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.marxists.org/portugues/hughes/1946/mes/90.htm "Lenin"] by Langston Hughes
The strangest tongues believe him.
 
 
Lenin walks around the world.
 
The sun sets like a scar.
 
Between the darkness and the dawn
 
There rises a red star.
|[https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.marxists.org/portugues/hughes/1946/mes/90.htm "Lenin"] by Langston Hughes|noquote=yes}}
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  • Throughout the civilised world the teachings of Marx evoke the utmost hostility and hatred of all bourgeois science (both official and liberal), which regards Marxism as a kind of “pernicious sect”. And no other attitude is to be expected, for there can be no “impartial” social science in a society based on class struggle. In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naïve as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers’ wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital. (The three sources and three component parts of Marxism)
  • Don’t whine, comrades, we are bound to win, for we are right. (As cited by Stalin in this work [MIA link])

On bourgeois dictatorship

  • To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament – this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics. (The state and revolution: Abolition of parliamentarism)

On Trotsky

  • Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. And these gentlemen do not stand on ceremony where the Party is concerned. (The right of nations to self-determination: The 1903 Programme and its liquidators (1914), Collected Works, vol. 20, p. 448-449)
  • Trotsky behaves like a despicable careerist and factionalist of the Ryazanov-and-co type. Either equality on the editorial board, subordination to the central committee and no one’s transfer to Paris except Trotsky’s (the scoundrel, he wants to ‘fix up’ the whole rascally crew of ‘Pravda’ at our expense!) – or a break with this swindler and an exposure of him in the CO. He pays lip-service to the Party and behaves worse than any other of the factionalists. (Letter to G. Zinoviev, 1909, Collected Works, vol. 34, p. 399-400)
  • It is impossible to argue with Trotsky on the merits of the issue, because Trotsky holds no views whatever. We can and should argue with confirmed liquidators and otzovists, but it is no use arguing with a man whose game is to hide the errors of both these trends; in his case the thing to do is to expose him as a diplomat of the smallest calibre. (Trotsky's diplomacy and a certain party platform, Collected Works, vol. 17, p. 362)
  • Needless to say, this explanation is highly flattering to Trotsky, to all five groups abroad, and to the liquidators. Trotsky is very fond of using, with the learned air of the expert, pompous and high-sounding phrases to explain historical phenomena in a way that is flattering to Trotsky. (Disruption of unity under cover of outcries for unity, Collected Works, vol. 20, pp. 333-334)

Quotes about Lenin

Lenin walks around the world.
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
Nor does barbed wire scar him.

Lenin walks around the world.
Black, brown, and white receive him.
Language is no barrier.
The strangest tongues believe him.

Lenin walks around the world.
The sun sets like a scar.
Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star.

"Lenin" by Langston Hughes