Movement Mottos
“An injury to one is an injury to all”
International Workers of the World (IWW)
“Socialism is when the government does stuff. The more stuff the government does, the more socialist it is. And when it does a whole lot of stuff, that’s communism.”
Richard D. Wolff
This leader was famous for his love of dairy: he once ate between 18–28 scoops of ice cream after a meal, and tried to breed heat-resistant dairy cows, commissioning a marble statue of his favorite cow.
Fidel Castro
"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed." - Karl Marx
Das Kapital
Idea that if enough socialists are in the Democratic Party it will somehow transform into a working-class party.
Realignment (Entryism accepted)
“All power to the people”
Black Panther Party (BPP)
“The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the Black man.”
Malcolm X
This leader, who famously banged his shoe on his podium during a UN speech, was a Pepsi-fanatic and was denied entry from Disneyland.
Nikita Khrushchev
“I guess the trouble was that we [Americans] didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist.” - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Shielding bad corporate practices with performative virtue signals, particularly pertaining to support for gay rights.
Pinkwashing/Rainbow Capitalism
“Peace, land, bread”
The Bolsheviks
"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."
Karl Marx
This leader’s security detail was staffed entirely by women, known as the “Amazonian Guard” or “Revolutionary Nuns,” who were vowed to chastity and highly trained in martial arts, and were known for wearing heels, designer sunglasses, and heavy makeup.
Muammar Gaddafi
"The state is not 'abolished', it withers away." - Friedrich Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
System of global trade that privileges Western countries through unfair deals and prices.
Unequal exchange
“Free the land”
New Afrikan Independence Movement
“I like to be alone.”
Vladimir Lenin
During the length of his rule, this leader built over 170,000 concrete bunkers, 1 for every 4 inhabitants, to be used in war.
Enver Hoxha
"The beauty of the [Paris] Commune intended to abolish that class property which makes the labour of the many the wealth of the few." - Karl Marx
The Civil War in France
Building working-class power by intentionally unionizing key sectors of the economy.
Rank and File Strategy
"The People United Will Never Be Defeated!"
Chilean Popular Unity Coalition
"The farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence."
Friedrich Engels
This revolutionary leader was an avid botanist.
“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” - Lenin
What Is to Be Done?
When powerful countries begin to use colonial tactics domestically rather than abroad.
Imperial boomerang