“In the cities of India, unarmed masses are shot down by the guns of British money, and the chosen leaders of the Indian people are imprisoned for demanding the elementary rights of men.”
Category: War Commentary
“The worthlessness of the many ‘saviours’ now afflicting mankind is apparent to anyone of normal intelligence.”
“The Gibraltar-Suez-Aden sea-route is the jugular vein of the British world-power, whose spectacular rise has been largely due to its brilliant sense for key strategic positions.”
“For the obsolete and worn-out creeds of State worship and patriotism the workers are dragged to a senseless massacre.”
“When representatives of these governments assemble under the false presumption of alleviating conditions which they themselves created through their laws, we can say that this is the peak of brazen and heartless boldness.”
“So much for Freedom under Democracy… So much for the real aims of the Allies.”
“Have those who now extol Chiang Kai-Shek as a great democrat looked at his record? Have they forgotten that his merciless slaughter of the revolutionary Chinese workers had earned for him the title of ‘Butcher of the Chinese Revolution’?”
“The capitalist system is to be saved at all costs. The nazis and fascists of all sorts will be tolerated, but subdued and controlled by the democratic powers.”
“The whole Italian situation has led up to the dictatorship, has determined the different phases of Fascism. To believe that all that has been the product of the will and the intelligence of one man is infantile.”
“…the fact remains that such conditions existed in Germany six years ago, and then, far from exposing these crimes, the British Government was eagerly helping the Nazi regime to get on its feet with loans and raw materials.”
“Both the means of production and consumption goods must be expropriated and put at the disposal of the whole community.”
“…having studied the correspondence — I consider the Arabs’ case to be indisputable, the alternative proposition, which is that our promises were ambiguous, is hardly to our credit.”
“But it may be asked, can this particular problem wait? No problem can wait. A desirable conclusion may have to wait, but the means of action must be taken now.”
“The very fact of fighting an election is on the contrary a counter-revolutionary activity.”
“While it would be ridiculous to contend that capitalism has given out its prizes to a majority of the workers, many have benefited from the exploitation of the empire, and their good fortune has given a hope to many more of their fellows.”
“The best politician operating on the social organism is like a well-meaning and intelligent mechanic trying to cut out your appendix with a rusty bread-saw.”
“… I sold my individuality, part of my life, my skill with arms; and also was expected to commit murder if asked to do so (Palestine Rebellion, 1936).”
“The people of Lebanon did not accept this ruthless display of power without active protests. There were demonstrations in the principal towns and in many of the villages.”
“The masses don’t want crumbs from the loaded tables of the rich, but what is their natural right. They should take it whenever they have an opportunity.”
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Zionism – War Commentary (1944)
“Zionism has become reactionary because instead of being a scheme for immigration, as many at first thought it would be, it became a scheme for colonization, and therefore of imperialism.”
“Fascism is the natural child of bourgeois ‘democracy'”
“America will have to eliminate its competitors and that is a job the boys will be sure to get. That of conquering new markets for American capitalists, of preserving the American empire with a strong army and navy.”
