Famous Quotes
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels
This work provides a clear introduction to the concepts of historical materialism and class struggle, ending by calling on all workers of the world to unite, by Marx and Engels
The Communist Manifesto
A CIA spy sent to poison this leader ended up falling in love with him. When she admitted this, this leader handed her his pistol and dared her to shoot him, saying “No one can kill me. No one. Ever.”
This famous author and disability rights activist cofounded the ACLU and famously lost her sight and hearing at 19 months old.
Helen Keller
This is the “Engine” of history.
Class Struggle
"Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism."
Vladimir Lenin
This work analyzes and criticizes the perpetuation of systemic racism via the prison-industrial complex, by Angela Davis
Are Prisons Obsolete?
This leader, known for his orations, who gave his most famous speech unscripted, got a C in his college public speaking class.
Dr. MLK Jr.
While this famous artist and virulent misogynist hardly read socialist literature, he was a member of the French Communist Party and received a Stalin Peace Prize, amongst numerous other accolades in his 76 year-long career, during which he famously founded the Cubist movement.
Pablo Picasso
This historical stage of human development was pre-class, with resources being communal due to a lack of surplus.
Primitive Communism
“Be kind to people, be ruthless to institutions.”
Michael J. Brooks
Details “childish” mistakes made by ultra-leftists who refuse to engage in electoral or union politics, by Vladimir Lenin
Left “Communism,” an Infantile Disorder
This revolutionary who rode a motorcycle across South America had severe asthma.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
This Indianapolis author was a prominent anti-war activist, who wrote a satire about his experience surviving as a POW amidst the bombing of Dresden in Slaughterhouse-Five.
Kurt Vonnegut
This is a type of coalition where its members are practicing the mantra of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Popular Front
“The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development.”
Albert Einstein
This work debunks mythologized versions of the Russian Revolution, by Leon Trotsky
The Stalin School of Falsification
This chainsmoking leader gave soldiers cigarette rations and guaranteed cigarettes to all citizens upon gaining power.
Mao Zedong
This legendary power couple of a famed muralist and an iconic folk portrait artist divorced and remarried and were both members of the Mexican Communist Party.
Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo
Describes the deaths that people tend to ignore because they are caused by structures, rather than individuals.
Social Murder
"I am a revolutionary. I cannot be anything else."
Rosa Luxemburg
A list of 11 liberal behaviors that leftists should avoid by Mao Zedong
Combat Liberalism
While living in France, this “Uncle” was a pastry chef.
Ho Chi Minh
This renowned video game developer who grew up watching a movie every day with his family is the creator of the popular Metal Gear franchise in which the main protagonist is an anti-imperialist militant fighting to dismantle nuclear armaments and the war economy.
Hideo Kojima
This is the Maoist revolutionary strategy of mobilizing the rural areas first via guerilla warfare and with that power encircling and taking control of the cities.
Protracted People’s War