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"Communism is Soviet Power Plus the Electrification of the Whole Country"
•Lenin

"Soviets and Electrification- This is the Foundation of the New World."

"Leon Trotsky had biological magnetism which excited those who came within the field, and excitement is the prerequisite of revolutionary action."
•Louis Fischer

"For the blood of Lenin... let there be floods of the blood of the bourgeoisie- more blood, as much blood as possible."
Krasnaya Gazeta

"Workers! A Few More Blows will Finally Eliminate the Capitalists and the Proletariat will Get Everything it Wants."

"Art must be everywhere- on the streets, in trams, in factories, in workshops, in workers' apartments."
•Vladimir Mayakovsky

"As it was my object to carry terror and devastation wherever we went, I placed fifteen to twenty of best armed and most to be relied on in front, who generally approached the houses as fast as their horses could run."

“During the crisis, the banks, which by that time had become fairly well merged with industry, enormously accelerated and intensified the ruin of relatively small firms and their absorption by the large ones.”

“Still, even if the student-drug-testing crusaders no longer have a bully pulpit in the White House, their chief power and momentum has always been at the local level, in school districts and communities “ties, where the most potent policies of student discipline and school security are being forged.”

“Drug testing, he says, sets up an institutionalized system of suspicion”

In validating random testing of students in sports and any competitive extracurricular activities, the majority focused on schools’ “custodial responsibilities” and justified testing as reasonable given a “nationwide epidemic” of drug use by youth.

Annette Fuentes

“Fagan says Superintendent Stellar “really likes technology” and that he told committee members that the new system would speed slow lunch lines and maximize the number of poor students receiving free lunches. But she says both notions are bogus.”

Finally the storm troopers forced their way into the upper floors, they found, to their diappointment, no noses to break, no wrists to cuff, no bodies to drag downtown to central booking. The bilding was empty, with only the sound of reggae
music echoing through the corrdors.
“Get up, stand up . . .
stand up for your rights!”

"... women shall be able to occupy positions of leadership in the organization.”
-- Women’s Revolutionary Law of the EZLN

“Still, when it comes to school safety, irrational fears about sex predators can trump reality—and common sense.”

““Acceptance of security technology may be widespread, but resistance is hardly unknown—or futile. In a Northern California community with a conservative, small-town bent, ordinary folks started a ruckus heard around the world when the schools tagged their kids like livestock”

“...all capitalism’s illusions about freedom, all the apologetic tricks of vulgar economics, have as their basis the form of appearance discussed above, which makes the actual relation invisible..."

“A young man who throws a 40 ouncer usually has consumed the contents thereof.”

“What a relief!
I feel like a soldier and I look like a thief.”
•the Clash

“It must come from the poor, a rebellion of the spirit, that reaffirms their intrinsic human worth, based upon who they are, rather than what they possess.”
- Mumia Abu-Jamal

"...nothing to thrust out the window, no white flag
this flesh is all i have to offer, to make the play with this immediate head, what it comes up with, my move
as we slither over the Go board, stepping always,
(we hope) between the lines”
--Diane DePrima

"It's as if we don’t count. The whole world treats us as if we don’t count, and the only interest they ever take in us is when they hear we are a menace. They treat us like a menace and try to drive us away as enemies.”
--League of Homeless Youth, 1933

“Tell no lies,
claim no easy victories.”
--Mao Tse-Tung

What Seth Tobocman unfolds in these pages, though, is just that, the story of community forged and tested in the heat of emergency.

We turn street corners into liberated zones” recalls Tobocman in his Conclusion to War. “For a moment ... a space opens up and we are in control.”

"Nonviolence is radical political theatre."
Arundhati Roy

“In this way we should perhaps give the concept of contradiction, as Marx uses it in Part One of Capital, a purely indexical value... Marx is thinking something radically new, the concept of which he has not succeeded in formulating – the mode of action of the structure as a mode of action of the relations of production which govern it.”