Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 19

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“The intensely political character of the partisan is crucial since he has to be distinguished from the common thief and criminal, whose motives aim at private enrichment. This conceptual criterion of his political character possesses—in its exact inversion—the very same structure as the case of pirates in maritime law, whose concept is based on the unpolitical character of his bad deed which aim at private theft and profit. The pirate is possessed of what jurisprudence knows as animus furandi [felonious intent]. The partisan, by contrast, fights on a political front, and it is precisely the political character of his action that brings to the fore again the original sense of the word partisan. The word is derived from Partei [party] and refers to the relation to some kind of fighting, warring, or politically active party or group. Such connections to a party are particularly strong in revolutionary times.

In revolutionary war, adherence to a revolutionary party implies nothing less than total integration [Erfassung]. Other groups and associations, and in particular the state in its current form, are no longer able to integrate their members and adherents so totally as a revolutionary party does its active fighters.”

Carl Schmitt “The Theory of the Partisan”
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You are from Britain. Would you accept to give Manchester to some other people? And if you are American, I ask the same way, do you accept to give California to some other people? Or would you accept the 'status quo' of occupying Manchester by some other people, by the Chinese for instance? And then reach agreement after expelling the people of Manchester from their homes, depriving them of their property, of everything? This is the question of Palestine.

- Gamal Abdel Nasser
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"I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism."

- Chávez in March, 2005

"The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat … is represented by U.S. imperialism."

- Chávez during his television/radio show ¡Aló Presidente! on August 21, 2005.

"The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands."

- Chávez, Christmas Speech at a rehabilitation center on December 24th, 2005

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