There is no progress without confrontation. This is the law that civilization continues to this day. So far, the development of productive forces is due to the law of class confrontation.
Marx: The Poverty of Philosophy (1the first half of 847), The Complete Works of Marx and Engels, Volume IV, Page 104.
Of all the classes opposed to the bourgeoisie at present, only the proletariat is the real revolutionary class. The rest of the class declined and died with the development of big industry, but the proletariat is the product of big industry itself.
Marx and Engels: Manifesto of the Productive Party (1847 1 February-18481month), p. 35, 1964.
The working class knows that they have to go through several different stages of class struggle. They know that it will take quite some time to replace the economic conditions of labor slavery with free and joint working conditions (this is economic transformation); ..... They know that this revival will be constantly resisted by vested interests and class selfishness, so it will be delayed and blocked.
Marx: Draft of French Civil War (187 1 April-May, 2000), Complete Works of Marx and Engels, vol. 17, p. 594.
The petty bourgeoisie encouraged the uprising with rhetoric and boasted about what it wanted to accomplish; When the uprising broke out, it completely violated its will and was eager to seize power; But it used this power only to destroy the achievements of the uprising. Whenever an armed conflict in a place comes to a critical juncture, the petty bourgeoisie is very afraid of the dangerous situation for them: the people who have accepted their solemn call and are seriously armed, the regime that falls into their hands, especially the consequences that the policies they are forced to adopt will bring to themselves, their social status and their property.
Engels; German Revolution and Counter-Revolution (185 1 year August-1852 September), Complete Works of Marx and Engels, Volume VIII, p. 107.
Bad socialists always think that capitalists will give up their rights immediately. This is not going to happen. There are no such capitalists in the world. Only by opposing capitalism can socialism develop. There is not a ruling class in the world that will automatically step down without struggle.
Lenin: Speech at the Workers' Congress in Brescia (19 181February), Complete Works of Lenin, Vol. 28, pp. 340-34/KLOC-0.
After the proletariat seized power, the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie did not end. On the contrary, it will become wider, sharper and more cruel.
Lenin: Outline of the Basic Tasks of the Second International Production Conference (1July 920), Complete Works of Lenin, Volume 3 1, Page 166.
The dictatorship of the proletariat is not the end of class struggle, but the continuation of new forms of class struggle. The dictatorship of the proletariat is the class struggle of the bourgeoisie that has won victory and seized political power, but has been defeated but not eliminated, eliminated or stopped resisting. Lenin: Preface to Deceive People with Slogans of Freedom and Equality (19 19 June), Complete Works of Lenin, Volume 29, p. 343.
Class struggle continues, but the form has changed. This is a class struggle waged by the proletariat to prevent the old exploiters from coming back and unite with the scattered ignorant peasants. The class struggle is still going on, and our task is to subordinate all interests to this struggle.
Lenin: The Mission of the Youth League (1920 10), Selected Works of Lenin, Volume 4, 1965, p. 373.
Marx said: Any class struggle is a political struggle. In other words, proletarians and capitalists have an economic struggle today and will have a political struggle tomorrow. In this way, they use the double struggle to protect their class interests.
Stalin: Class Struggle (19061month), The Complete Works of Stalin, Volume I, p. 259.
There has never been a case in history in which the dying class voluntarily withdrew from the stage. There has never been a dying bourgeoisie in history who has not tried to use up all its surplus strength to defend its survival.
Stalin: On Right Deviation in the Communist Party of China (Bolshevik) (1April 929), Complete Works of Stalin, Volume XII, p. 35.
There has never been and will never be such a thing: the dying class voluntarily gives up its position instead of trying to organize resistance. There has never been and will never be such a thing: in a class society, the working class can advance towards socialism without struggle and twists and turns.
Stalin: the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Plenary Session: On Industrialization and Food (1July, 928) The Complete Works of Stalin, vol. 1 1, pp. 150.
Of course, the old system is being destroyed and disintegrated. It's true. However, people are really fighting new battles, and they are using other methods, all methods, to defend and save this dying system. ..... It is a complicated and long-term revolutionary process that one social system is replaced by another. This is not a simple spontaneous process, it is a struggle, and it is a process associated with class conflict. Capitalism has decayed, but we can't simply compare it to a decayed tree that will surely fall to the ground. No, a revolution in which one social system is replaced by another is always a struggle, a painful and cruel struggle, and a life-and-death struggle. Whenever the people of the new world gain political power, they should guard against the old world's attempt to restore the old system by violence, and the people of the new world should always be vigilant and ready to counter the aggression of the old world against the new world. Stalin: And the British writer Hector. Joe. Conversation with Wells (1July 934)
Because some of our comrades can't see the class enemies wearing new masks and are not good at exposing their deception skills, they often comfort themselves that there are no rich peasants in the world and anti-Soviet elements in the countryside have been wiped out because of the policy of eliminating the rich peasants ... Comrades, this is a great mistake. The rich peasants were defeated, but they have not been completely eliminated. Moreover, if party member, the producer of * * * *, is poised and dozed off, thinking that the rich peasants will run into their graves according to the so-called spontaneous development model, then the rich peasants will not be completely eliminated soon.
Stalin: Closing off Rural Work (1933 1 month), Volume XIII of Complete Works of Stalin, pp. 205-206.
Can capitalists be squeezed out and the roots of capitalism be eradicated without cruel class struggle? No, you can't. Can the theory and practice of relying on capitalist parents to enter socialism destroy classes? No, you can't. Such theory and practice can only cultivate classes and make them exist forever, because this theory is contradictory to Marxist theory of class struggle. Stalin: On Right Deviation within the Unity Party (1April 929), Complete Works of Stalin, vol. 12, p. 30.
The basic method of Trotskyites' activities is not to publicize their views openly and honestly among the working class, but to cover up their views, praise the enemy's views with humility and flattery, and slander their views with hypocrisy and duplicity.
Stalin: On the Shortcomings of the Party's Work and the Ways to Eliminate Trotsky's Double-dealing and Other Double-dealing (1March 937)
Revisionism, or right opportunism, is a bourgeois trend of thought and more dangerous than dogmatism. Revisionists and right opportunists also talk about Marxism, and they also attack dogmatism there. But what they attacked was the most fundamental thing of Marxism. They oppose or distort materialism and dialectics, oppose or attempt to weaken the people's democratic dictatorship and the leadership of the production party, and oppose or attempt to weaken socialist transformation and construction. After the basic victory of the socialist revolution in China, there are still some people in the society who dream of restoring the capitalist system. They want to fight against the working class in all aspects, including ideological struggle. Revisionists are their best assistants in this struggle.
Mao Zedong: On Correctly Handling Contradictions among the People (1March 957)
The Soviet Union was the first socialist country, and the CPSU was founded by Lenin. However, we ask comrades to firmly believe that the broad masses of people, party member and cadres in the Soviet Union are good and revolutionary, and that revisionist rule will not last long. People will ask: the Soviet Union was ruled by revisionism. Still need to learn? We learn from the good practices of the Soviet Union and the good experience of the Soviet Party. We should regard the bad guys and Soviet revisionists as negative teachers and learn from them.
Mao Zedong: Speech at the enlarged meeting of the central work (1962 1 month)
Comrade Mao Zedong once said: "As soon as capitalism comes to power, revisionism comes to power, which is the worst capitalism, fascist capitalism."
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Chapter 1: Old people insist? Ten practices? Old and slow
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