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If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. --Joe Ettor (IWW labor organizer)
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http://www.idcommunism.com/2017/08/bertolt-brecht-five-difficulties-in.html
The great truth of our time is that our continent is giving way to barbarism because private ownership of the means of production is being maintained by violence. Merely to recognize this truth is not sufficient, but should it not be recognized, no other truth of importance can be discovered. Of what use is it to write something courageous which shows that the condition into which we are falling is barbarous (which is true) if it is not clear why we are falling into this condition? We must say that torture is used in order to preserve property relations. To be sure, when we say this we lose a great many friends who are against torture only because they think property relations can be upheld without torture, which is untrue.
https://www.thetricontinental.org/dossier-32-communist-movement-in-india/
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On 17 October 2020, the Indian communist movement looks back on a century of courageous resistance against tyranny, oppression, and exploitation. This was a century of sacrifices by hundreds of thousands of revolutionaries of the Indian communist movement who pledged their lives to the dream of an egalitarian and a truly democratic society. Thousands of cadre were martyred on this path and many more continue to carry forward the dream and the fight in the face of state repression, violence, and infinite efforts at subversion.
Considered as a foundational document, presented are links to various formats of the Manifesto of the Communist Party
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
PDF version:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
Audio:
https://www.marxists.org/audiobooks/archive/marx-engels/communist-manifesto/index.htm
Ebook: