Quotes About Oppression

Bugüne kadar tarihteki tüm hareketler, ya az?nl?k hareketleri ya da az?nl?klar?n yarar?na hareketler olmuÅŸlard?r. Proletarya hareketi ise ezici çoÄŸunluÄŸun ezici çoÄŸunluk yarar?na ba??ms?z hareketidir.

EleÅŸtiri, zinciri süsleyen hayali çiçekleri, insan bu gerçek d??? süslerden soyulmuÅŸ prangalar? ta??s?n diye deÄŸil, zincirleri f?rlat?p ats?n ve canl? çiçeÄŸe uzans?n diye kopartm??t?r.

Le pouvoir politique, à proprement parler, est le pouvoir organisé d'une classe pour l'oppression d'une autre.

Abolid la explotación del hombre por el hombre y habréis abolido la explotación de una nación por otra.

they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.

They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.

The history of all hitherto existing society1 is the history of class struggles.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

The immediate aim of the Communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat

every class struggle is a political struggle.

The history of all hitherto existing society8 is the history of class struggles.

At the same pace that mankind masters nature, man seems to become enslaved to other men or to his own infamy. Even the pure light of science seems unable to shine but on the dark background of ignorance. All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.

oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS

The real pressure must be made more oppressive by making men conscious of the pressure, and the disgrace more disgraceful by publishing it.

La historia de todas las sociedades, hasta nuestros días es la historia de la lucha de las clases. Hombres libres y esclavos, patricios y plebeyos, señores y siervos, maestros y oficiales, en una palabra: opresores y oprimidos se enfrentaron siempre, mantuvieron una lucha constante, velada unas veces y otras franca y abierta, lucha que terminó siempre con la transformación revolucionaria de toda la sociedad o el hundimiento de las clases en pugna.

Es incapaz de gobernar, porque es incapaz de garantizar a sus esclavos la existencia ni aun dentro de su esclavitud, porque se ve forzada a dejarlos llegar hasta una situación de desamparo en que no tiene más remedio que mantenerles, cuando son ellos quienes debieran mantenerla a ella.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

It was now painfully clear to the people that equality before the law did not produce genuine, human equality

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured an looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

Communists] openly declare that their ends can only be attained by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

toda la historia de la sociedad [...] es una historia de luchas de clases, de luchas entre clases explotadoras y explotadas, dominantes y dominadas...