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Surrealism ... is the forbidden flame of the proletariat embracing the insurrectional dawn—enabling us to rediscover at last the... - MORE Surrealism ... is the forbidden flame of the proletariat embracing the insurrectional dawn—enabling us to rediscover at last the revolutionary moment: the radiance of the workers' councils as a life profoundly adored by those we love.

unknown author

surrealism

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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, i... - MORE The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.

Louis Aragon

Dada

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Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become ... - MORE Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.

Roland Barthes

class

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The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and sp... - MORE The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.... Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a "vanguard" party, or a State bureaucracy.

Noam Chomsky

anarchism

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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By ... - MORE By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

Friedrich Engels

class

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Nobody thinks in terms of "human beings." Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk abo... - MORE Nobody thinks in terms of "human beings." Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Graham Greene

humanity | government | cynicism

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The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture.... - MORE The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture.

George Grosz

culture

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The three great problems of this century, the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the a... - MORE The three great problems of this century, the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Victor Hugo

nineteenth century

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Literature must become Party literature.... Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature mu... - MORE Literature must become Party literature.... Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

literature and society

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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern in... - MORE Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

despair

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