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quotes[0]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite
Magnitogorsk Ballad of the Komsomols
’Ural, Ural,
The town by the magnetic mountain.
Here lies a lot of steel.
The Party says,
Give us steel!
The Komsomols answer,
In the time planned
We will give you steel!’
By Hans Eisler, with Tretyakov, c.1937, and printed in Hans Eisler, ed.
Manfred Grabs, A Rebel in Music: Selected Writings, International
Publishers New York, 1978.
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quotes[1]=' Voices from the German Revolution:
From Rosa Luxemburg’s Final Newspaper Article
"Order prevails in Berlin!"
You foolish lackeys! Your "order" is built on sand. Tomorrow the
revolution will "rise up again, clashing its weapons", and to your
horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
"I was, I am, I shall be!"
Rosa Luxemburg, "Order prevails in Berlin", published in Rote Fahne,
14 January 1919.
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quotes[2]=' Voices from the German Revolution:
Karl Marx on State Education
’"Elementary education by the State" is altogether objectionable....
Government and Church should rather be equally excluded from any
influence on the school. Particularly, indeed, in the Prusso-German
Empire... the State has need, on the contrary, of a very stern
education by the people.’
Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, section IV.
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quotes[3]=' Voices from the German Revolution
’When Socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate
Socialism with the same vigour it is now favouring feudalism and
slavery.’
August Bebel, 1906.
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quotes[4]=' Voices from the German Revolution:
A Stirring Slogan
’Thumb on the Eyeball, and Knee in the Chest!’
A slogan coined by Ferdinand Lassalle, and taken up by Rosa
Luxemburg during the Sparticist Insurrection of 1918/9.
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quotes[5]=' Voices from the German Revolution
’Gentlemen, have you ever witnessed a sunrise from a high mountain top?
’A purple border tinges the extreme horizon with a red and bloody
glow that announces the new light; mist and fogs rise and contract
into great mounds, attacking the rosy dawn, and for a moment
concealing its rays; but no power on earth is capable of hindering
the slow and majestic ascent of the sun itself, which, but a single
hour later, will stand shining and bright and warm in the sky,
visible to all the world.’
Ferdinand Lassalle, in the Arbeiter-Programm, reprinted in Voices of
Revolt, Volume III: Speeches of Ferdinand Lassalle, New York,
International Publishers, 1927, p.79.
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quotes[6]=' A National-Popular Soundbite:
Antonio Gramsci’s Favourite Childhood Slogan:
’Throw the Mainlanders into the Sea!’
from Hoare and Nowell Smith, eds, Selections from the Prison
Notebooks, p.xix.
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quotes[7]=' A National-Popular Soundbite:
Antonio Gramsci’s thoughts on Esperanto
’Down with Esperanto... - a linguistic form that is rigidified and
mechanized. I am a revolutionary, a "historicist", and I affirm that
only those forms of social activity - whether linguistic, economic
or political - that arise spontaneously from the activity of free
social energies are "useful and rational".
Therefore: down with Esperanto,
as well as with all the privileges, all the mechanisations,
all the definitive and rigidified forms of life...!’
Gramsci: Letter to Leo Galetto, February 1918.
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quotes[8]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
A Popular Decree: 12 April 1871
’Considering that the Imperial Column in the Place Vendôme is a
monument of barbarism, a symbol of brute force and false glory, an
affirmation of militarism, a denial of international law, a
permanent insult directed at the conquered by their conquerers, a
perpetual attack upon one of the three great principles of the
French Republic, decrees
The column in the Place Vendôme shall be demolished.’
Decree published in the Journel Officiel (Commune), 13 April 1871
and reprinted in translation in The Paris Commune of 1871 - The View
from the Left, ed. Eugene Schulkind, Jonathan Cape, 1972, p.159.
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quotes[9]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
A Decree to Abolish Feudalism
’The exclusive right to maintain pigeon houses and dovecotes is
abolished. The pigeons shall be confined during the seasons fixed by
the community. During such periods they shall be looked upon as
game, and every one shall have the right to kill them upon his own
land.’
Article Two of the decrees of the National Assembly doing away with
feudal privilege, August 4-5 1789.
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quotes[10]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
A Popular Decree:
’The centuries old dream of the masses of only just one measure has
come true!
The Revolution has given the people the metre!’
From James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State, Yale University Press,
1998, p.32.
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quotes[11]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
Graffiti from May 1968
’Masochism today takes the form of reformism.’
Graffiti drawn from Julien Besançon: Les murs ont la parole (Tchou,
1968), Walter Lewino: L’imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc
Rohan: Paris ’68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet: Enragés et
situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Gallimard, 1968),
and Gérard Lambert: Mai 1968: brûlante nostalgie (Pied de nez,
1988). Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999.
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quotes[12]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
Graffiti from May 1968
’When the National Assembly becomes a bourgeois theatre, all the
bourgeois theatres should be turned into national assemblies.’
’Quand l’assemblée nationale devient un théâtre bourgeois, tous les théâtres bourgeois doivent devenir des assemblées nationales.’
Graffiti drawn from Julien Besançon: Les murs ont la parole (Tchou,
1968), Walter Lewino: L’imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc
Rohan: Paris ’68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet: Enragés et
situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Gallimard, 1968),
and Gérard Lambert: Mai 1968: brûlante nostalgie (Pied de nez,
1988). Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999.
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quotes[13]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
Graffiti from May 1968
’Barricades close the streets but open the way.’
Graffiti drawn from Julien Besançon: Les murs ont la parole (Tchou,
1968), Walter Lewino: L’imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc
Rohan: Paris ’68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet: Enragés et
situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Gallimard, 1968),
and Gérard Lambert: Mai 1968: brûlante nostalgie (Pied de nez,
1988). Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999.
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quotes[14]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
Graffiti from May 1968
’When the last sociologist has been hanged with the guts of the last
bureaucrat, will we still have "problems"?’
Graffiti drawn from Julien Besançon: Les murs ont la parole (Tchou,
1968), Walter Lewino: L’imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc
Rohan: Paris ’68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet: Enragés et
situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Gallimard, 1968),
and Gérard Lambert: Mai 1968: brûlante nostalgie (Pied de nez,
1988). Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999.
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quotes[15]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
Graffiti from May 1968
’The student’s susceptibility to recruitment as a militant for any
cause is a sufficient demonstration of his real impotence.’
Graffiti drawn from Julien Besançon: Les murs ont la parole (Tchou,
1968), Walter Lewino: L’imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc
Rohan: Paris ’68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet: Enragés et
situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Gallimard, 1968),
and Gérard Lambert: Mai 1968: brûlante nostalgie (Pied de nez,
1988). Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999.
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quotes[16]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
Graffiti from May 1968
’I love you!!! Oh, say it with paving stones!!!’
’Je t’aime !!! Oh! dites-le avec des pavés !!! ’
Graffiti drawn from Julien Besançon: Les murs ont la parole (Tchou,
1968), Walter Lewino: L’imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc
Rohan: Paris ’68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet: Enragés et
situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Gallimard, 1968),
and Gérard Lambert: Mai 1968: brûlante nostalgie (Pied de nez,
1988). Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999.
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quotes[17]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
Graffiti from May 1968
"First, disobey; then write on the walls."
Law of 10 May 1968
"Désobéir d’abord ; puis écrire sur les murs. Loi du 10 mai 1968."
Graffiti drawn from Julien Besançon: Les murs ont la parole (Tchou,
1968), Walter Lewino: L’imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc
Rohan: Paris ’68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet: Enragés et
situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Gallimard, 1968),
and Gérard Lambert: Mai 1968: brûlante nostalgie (Pied de nez,
1988). Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999.
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quotes[18]=' A Soundbite for Fellow-Travellers:
A Verse for American Communists
’I’m always thinking of Russia
I can’t keep her out of my head,
I don’t give a damn for Uncle Sham,
I am a left-wing radical Red.’
H. H. Lewis, "Thinking of Russia", which appears as the epigraph to
David Caute, The Fellow-Travellers.
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quotes[19]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
’Have labourers no right under the sun but to work when capitalists think
fit, and on such terms as competition may determine? If the competitive
standard of wage be the true one, why is it not applied all round? What,
for instance, would be the competitive value of a Duke, a Bishop, or a
Lord-in-Waiting?’
Fabian Society Tract #1, "Why Are The Many Poor?", 1884.
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quotes[20]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
’The Fabians are associated for the purpose of spreading the following
opinions held by them, and discussing their practical consequences...
’That the most striking result of our present system of farming out the
national Land and Capital to private individuals has been the division of
Society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one
extreme, and large dinners and no appetites at the other...’
Fabian Society Tract #2, "Manifesto", 1884.
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quotes[21]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
’The Fabian Society, having in view the advance of Socialism in England,
and the threatened subversion of the powers hitherto exercised by private
proprietors of the national land and capital, ventures plainly to warn all
such proprietors that the establishment of Socialism in England means
nothing less than the compulsion of all members of the upper class,
without regard for sex or condition, to work for their own living.’
Fabian Society Tract #3, "To Provident Landlords and Capitalists: A
Suggestion and a Warning", 1885.
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quotes[22]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
’There is a mass of Socialistic feeling not yet conscious of itself as
Socialism. But when the unconscious Socialists of England discover their
position, they also will probably fall into two parties: a Collectivist
party supporting a strong central administration, and a counterbalancing
Anarchist party defending individual initiative against that
administration. In some such fashion progress and stability will probably
be secured under Socialism by the conflict of the ineradicable Tory and
Whig instincts in human nature...’
Fabian Society Tract #4, "What Socialism Is", 1886.
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quotes[23]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
’WE WANT ADULT SUFFRAGE, PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL.
’Why? If you don’t know why, you are no true Radical. The Women must have
a voice in the making of the laws because the women work under the laws;
pay for the laws; and have to submit to the laws. And the paupers must
vote because, since if the laws were just there need be no paupers, the
paupers have the first right to a voice in altering the unjust laws by
which they are the greatest sufferers. As to the incorrigible idlers, they
are mostly rich people who have not one but several votes apiece already.’
Fabian Society Tract #6, "The True Radical Programme", 1887.
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quotes[24]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite:
A Fact for Londoners
’London is at present supplied with water from the works of eight
companies of private shareholders, who profess to have expended a total
capital of £14,000,000 upon them. This amount is, however, swollen by the
former reckless competition between rival companies, by legal and
parliamentary charges, and by the wasteful extrvagance engendered by
abundant wealth...
’With a municipal water supply, the present survivals of the evil cistern
arrangement must disappear, and a "constant supply" be made universal.’
Fabian Society Tract #8, "Facts for Londoners", 1889.
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quotes[25]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
A Figure for Londoners
’London’s 15,000 police cost over £1,700,000 annually, for which Londoners
have to pay a ninepenny rate. Yet Londoners are not consulted as to how
the money should be spent, and have no control whatsoever over the force
which they maintain. Every provincial city and county has this power,
denied to London alone.
"Remember Trafalgar Square!"’
Fabian Society Tract #10, "Figures for Londoners", 1889/90?
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quotes[26]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
A Question for Parliamentary Candidates
’Will you, on the first Budget, press for the total abolition of the
duties on tea, cocoa, and coffee, by means of the substitution for them of
the direct TAX ON LAND VALUES, without necessarily awaiting the existence
of a surplus?’
From Fabian Society Tract #11, "The Workers’ Political Programme", 1890.
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quotes[27]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
’The Fabian Society asserts the necessity of the extinction of private
property in land, which enables private individuals idly to appropriate,
in the form of Rent, the price paid for permission to use the earth, as
well as for the advantages of superior soils and sites. Until all such
payments are either made to the public through their representative
institutions, or else recovered from the private landholders by taxation
of their incomes, the benefits arising from the value of the nation’s land
can never be equitably shared by the whole people.’
Fabian Society Tract #12: "Practicable Land Nationalization".
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quotes[28]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
’What we want in order to make true progress is more bakers, more
schoolmasters, more woolweavers and tailors, and more builders: what we
get instead is more footmen, more gamekeepers, more jockeys, and more
prostitutes. That is what our newspapers call "sound political economy".
What do you think of it? Do you intend to do anything to get it remedied?’
Fabian Society Tract #13: "What Socialism Is".
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quotes[29]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite:
Wisdom from the Webbs
’There are three stages through which every new notion in England has to
pass: It is impossible: It is against the Bible: We knew it before.
Socialism is rapidly reaching the third of these stages.’
By Sidney Webb, Fabian Society Tract #15: "English Progress towards Social
Democracy", a lecture from 1888, published in 1890.
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quotes[30]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite:
On Lenin, in August 1917.
’The difference between the outlook of the British and Russian working man
cannot be illustrated better than by reference to a well-known and
generally misrepresented extreme case. Lenin was an active member of the
Social-Democratic Labour Party from the start, in Russia and in exile.
Some people say that he is a German agent, but it is more likely that he
is one of those curious products of the Russian revolutionary movement who
have ceased to live on the moral planes of the rest of the world.’
Julius West, The Russian Revolution and British Democracy, Fabian Society
Tract #184, pp.7-8, 1917.
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quotes[31]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite:
Bernard Shaw on Communism
’Most people will tell you that Communism is known in this country only as
a visionary project advocated by a handful of admirable cranks. Then they
will stroll off across the common bridge, across the common embankment, by
the light of the common street lamp shining alike on the just and the
unjust, up the common street, and into the common Trafalgar Square, where
on the smallest hint on their part that Communism is to be tolerated for
an instant in a civilized country, they will be handily bludgeoned by the
common policeman, and hauled off to the common gaol.’
George Bernard Shaw, "The Impossibility of Anarchism", a talk from 1891,
published in Socialism and Individualism, 1911, p.42.
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quotes[32]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite:
A Stirring Slogan
’No Cake For Anyone Until All Have Bread!’
Sidney Webb, National Finance and a Levy on Capital, Fabian Society Tract
#188, March 1919
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quotes[33]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite:
On German Social Democracy
’But while Marx is honoured as a great thinker, Lassalle is adored as a
great leader. His striking figure and meteoric career have made a deep
impression upon the hearts and minds of the organized masses; his
romantic, though foolish, end, his human failings, even his egoism endear
him to them. They have enshrined his memory in poetry and song, while it
appears to be as impossible for them to be lyrical over Marx as it is to
set Das Kapital to music.’
W. Stephen Sanders, The Socialist Movement in Germany, Fabian Society
Tract #169, February 1913, p.9.
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quotes[34]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite:
First Wave Feminism...
’Women, too, must be citizens and fully conscious of the privileges and
duties of their citizenship if Socialism is to be attained. Not least
among the duties of citizenship should be what Plato long ago demanded of
his women guardians: - that they should bear children for the service of
the State.’
By M.A., The Economic Foundations of the Women’s Movement, Fabian Society
Tract #175, June 1914, p.24.
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quotes[35]=' A Fabian Society Soundbite
’The Russian people are building their Socialism!
ARE YOU HELPING TO BUILD OURS?’
Wright Miller, How The Russians Live, a Fabian Society Socialist Propaganda
Committee Pamphlet, c.1942?, slogan on inside back cover.
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quotes[36]=' A New Democrat Ideological Highlight:
Vice President Al Gore Speaks To The Nation
’Six years ago, we moved politics forward, beyond right and left.
Today let us move politics not only farther forward, but also
upward, to a higher place, to a place far beyond the false divisions
and dichotomies of the past’
from The New York Times, December 3 1998
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quotes[37]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Slogan from 1930
’Peasant Women!
Let Us Increase the Harvest!
Let Us Unite Peasant Households into Collectives’
from Victoria E. Bonnell, Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters
under Lenin and Stalin, University of California Press, 1997.
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quotes[38]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Futurist Poem
Homeward!, by Vladimir Mayakovsky
’I want the pen to be on a par
with the bayonet; And Stalin
to deliver his Politburo
reports
about verse in the making
as he would about pig iron and the smelting of steel’
from Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above,
1928-41, W. W. Norton, 1990, p.553.
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quotes[39]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite
A Message from Comrade Stalin on the opening of the Stalingrad
Tractor Factory in June 1930
’The 50,000 tractors you are going to give the country each year are
50,000 shells blowing up the old bourgeois world and cutting through
the road to the new socialist system in the countryside’
from Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above,
1928-41, W. W. Norton, 1990, p.93.
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quotes[40]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Question Raised at the June 1932 Central Council Plenum
’What exactly are Godless shock brigades? How do they differ from
Komsomol brigades, MOPR brigades, brigades in honour of the Ninth
Trade Union Congress? Specifically, how are these shock brigades
distinct?’
from Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the
Militant Godless, Cornell University Press, 1998.
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quotes[41]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Slogan from 1948
’Labour with Martial Perseverance So Your Kolkhoz Becomes Part of
the Vanguard!’
from Victoria E. Bonnell, Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters
under Lenin and Stalin, University of California Press, 1997.
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quotes[42]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Futurist Poem
’Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
march
faster through what’s left
of the five-year plan.’
by Vladimir Mayakovsky (translated by George Reavey).
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quotes[43]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Slogan From 1930
’All Forces to the Sowing Campaign!
Do Not Allow One Kulak to Interfere with the Spring Harvest!’
from Victoria E. Bonnell, Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters
under Lenin and Stalin, University of California Press, 1997.
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quotes[44]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Slogan from 1948
’The Union of Science and Labour is the Guarantee of High Yield Harvests!’
from Victoria E. Bonnell, Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters
under Lenin and Stalin, University of California Press, 1997.
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quotes[45]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
Bolshevik Art Criticism
’After Marc Chagall designed banners to decorate the streets of Vitebsk
at the first anniversary celebrations of the October Revolution,
an official asked:
"Why is the cow green, and why is the house flying through the sky?
Why? What’s the connection with Marx and Engels?"’
from Orlando Figes, A People’s Tragedy, Jonathan Cape, 1996, p.740.
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quotes[46]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Slogan From 1930
’The Five Year Plan Will Not Be Derailed!
Break the Paw of the Wrecker and the Interventionist!’
from Victoria E. Bonnell, Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters
under Lenin and Stalin, University of California Press, 1997.
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quotes[47]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
Lenin on Beethoven
’I know nothing better than the Apassionata. I could listen to
it every day. Amazing, superhuman music. I always think with
pride, naively perhaps, what miracles man can perform. ... But I
can’t listen to music often, it affects my nerves, makes me want
to say silly compliments, stroke people on the head for living in
this filthy hell and creating such beauty. But nowadays, you
mustn’t stroke anybody on the head, or they’ll bite your hand
off; you must beat them over their heads, beat them without any
mercy, though in principle we’re against using violence on
people.’
from Boris Thomson, Lot’s wife and the Venus of Milo, p.63
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quotes[48]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A piece of scientific history
’If the First International foresaw the road that lay ahead and
indicated its direction; if the Second International assembled and
organised millions of proletarians; then the Third International is
the International of open mass action, the International of
revolutionary realisation, the International of the deed’
From The Manifesto of the Communist International to the Proletariat
of the Entire World, adopted at its First Congress, 6 March 1919.
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quotes[49]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Stirring Soviet Slogan
’The Dead of the Paris Commune have Risen again under the Banner of
the Soviets!’
Poster slogan from 1921.
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quotes[50]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
A Song from the Northern Regions
’My tundra, my beloved tundra,
I’m walking along, joyous and happy.
Our kolkhoz, our reindeer;
I feel good, I feel happy.
I said, "Let me help the Party"’
from Yuri Slezkine, Arctic Missions: Russia and the Small Peoples of
the North, Cornell University Press, 1994, p.298
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quotes[51]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
Songs for Stakhanovites:
a chatushka from 1936
’Oh thank you dear Lenin,
Oh thank you dear Stalin,
Oh thank you and thank you again
For Soviet power.
Knit for me, dear mama,
A dress of fine red calico
With a Stakhanovite I will go strolling
With a backward one I don’t want to.’
This was recited at the 3rd Congress of the Donetsk oblast soviets,
and is found in Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics
of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-41, Cambridge University Press,
1988, pp.230-1.
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quotes[52]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
Slogans for Stakhanovites
’One cannot speak to Stakhanovites as a teacher but as to equals.
They discuss Tolstoy’s style and how it resembles that of Homer’
P. Romanov, "Novye liudi", in Novyi mir, no.3 (1936, pp.157-64);
quoted in Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics
of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-41, Cambridge University Press,
1988, p.210.
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quotes[53]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
Graffiti from May 1968
’The future will only contain what we put into it now’
’L’avenir ne contiendra que ce que nous y mettrons maintenant’
Graffiti drawn from Julien Besançon: Les murs ont la parole (Tchou,
1968), Walter Lewino: L’imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc
Rohan: Paris ’68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet: Enragés et
situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Gallimard, 1968),
and Gérard Lambert: Mai 1968: brûlante nostalgie (Pied de nez,
1988). Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999.
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quotes[54]=' A French Revolutionary Soundbite:
Graffiti from May 1968
’Je participe.
Tu participes.
Il participe.
Nous participons.
Vous participez.
Ils profitent.’
Graffiti drawn from Julien Besançon: Les murs ont la parole (Tchou,
1968), Walter Lewino: L’imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc
Rohan: Paris ’68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet: Enragés et
situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Gallimard, 1968),
and Gérard Lambert: Mai 1968: brûlante nostalgie (Pied de nez,
1988). Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999.
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quotes[55]=' A British Socialist Soundbite:
’We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer, to hell with them. The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.’
Michael Foot, 1983
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quotes[56]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
’The correct solution of the bath-laundry problem plays an important role in the improvement of the cultural living conditions of the workers’
(from an article in a Leningrad newspaper, January 1932) in J. and M. Bullard (eds), Inside Stalin’s Russia: The Diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930-34 (Day Books, Oxfordshire, 2000)
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quotes[57]=' A Bolshevik Soundbite:
’We are not simply for Darwinism. We are for Darwinism remade by Marxism. For the bourgeoisie Darwinism is a theory in the past. For us it is a theory of action, it is militant materialism. Our slogan must be:
Against anti-Darwinism in the struggle on two fronts
-- for the real remaking of Darwinism by Marxism ’
(from an article on the 50th anniversary of Darwin’s death) in J. and M. Bullard (eds), Inside Stalin’s Russia: The Diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930-34 (Day Books, Oxfordshire, 2000), p.108.
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quotes[58]=' A Soundbite with Chinese Characteristics:
’How bright and brave they look, shouldering five-foot rifles,
On the parade-ground lit up by the first gleams of day.
China’s daughters have high-aspiring minds,
They love their battle-array, not silks and satins.’
Mao Tse-Tung, ’Militia Women’, Februray 1961, Mao Tse-Tung Poems.
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