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27 revolučních myšlenek, které posunou vaše vnímání světa

„Pokud se třesete rozhořčením nad každou nespravedlností, pak jste mým soudruhem.“

„Mnozí mi budou říkat dobrodruh, a tím i jsem ... jen takový odlišný: takový, kdo riskuje svůj život, aby dokázal svou pravdu.“

„Život jakéhokoliv jediného člověka na světě je cennější než všechen majetek nejbohatšího muže planety.“

„Revoluce je jako jízdní kolo. Když nejede dopředu, padá.“

„Ti, jež zabíjejí své vlastní děti a denně je rozlišují podle barvy jejich kůže; ti jež nechávají vrahy černochů nepotrestané, ochraňují je, a nadto trestají černé obyvatelstvo, protože požaduje legitimní práva jako svobodní lidé – jak můžou ti, jež činí toto, považovat sami sebe za ochránce svobody? Vláda Spojených států není obránce svobody, ale pachatel vykořisťování a útisku proti národům z celého světa a dokonce proti velké části svého vlastního obyvatelstva.“

„Chci cítit na tváři úder zasažený do tváře kteréhokoliv člověka…“

„Ať žije revoluce!“

„Vlast nebo smrt!“

„Až ke konečnému vítězství!“

„V okamžiku, kdy to bude nezbytné, budu připraven položit život za svobodu kteréhokoliv latinskoamerického národa, bez ptaní kohokoliv na cokoliv, bez jakýchkoliv požadavků, bez využití kohokoliv.“

„Revoluce není jako jablko, které spadne, když je zralé. Musíte jí pomoct.“

„Pokojné soužití nemůže být omezeno na mocné země, jestliže chceme zabezpečit světový mír.“

„Každý náš čin je bojovým pokřikem proti imperialismu, a zároveň bojová hymna za spojení lidí proti největšímu nepříteli lidstva: Spojeným státům americkým.“

„Nezajímá mě, jestli padnu, pokud někdo jiný zvedne zbraň a bude dál střílet.“

„Vždy k vítězství! (Hasta la victoria siempre!)“

„První povinností revolucionáře je být vzdělaný.“

„Kuba byla vyvinuta jako cukrovar ve Spojených státech.“

„Popravovali jsme, popravujeme a budeme popravovat.“

„V této válce za svobodu není vojáka srovnatelného s Camilem.“

„Revoluce musí být nenávist a zabíjet.“

„Ať vás svět změní a vy můžete změnit svět.“

„Počátky nebudou snadné; musí být nesmírně obtížné.“

„Vyrůstejte jako dobří revolucionáři.“

„Můj marxismus zakořenil a stal se očištěným.“

„Společnost jako celek musí být přeměněna na gigantickou školu.“

“Each time a country is freed, we say, it is a defeat for the world imperialist system, but we must agree that real liberation or breaking away from the imperialist system is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. Freedom is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.”

“What is our ideology? If l were asked whether our revolution is Communist, I would define it as Marxist. Our revolution has discovered by its methods the paths that Marx pointed out.”

“The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.”

“Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.”

“We believe that the state is capable of understanding the needs of the nation; as such, then, the state must participate in the administration and direction of the university.”

“Capitalism uses force but it also educates the people to its system. Direct propaganda is carried out by those entrusted with explaining the inevitability of class society, either through some theory of divine origin or through a mechanical theory of natural law.
This lulls the masses since they see themselves as being oppressed by an evil against which it is impossible to struggle. Immediately following comes the hope of improvement — and in this, capitalism differed from the preceding caste systems, which offered no possibilities for advancement.”

“The difficult thing for someone not living the experience of the revolution to understand is this close dialectical unity between the individual and the mass, in which the mass, as an aggregate of individuals, is interconnected with its leaders.
Some phenomena of this kind can be seen under capitalism, when politicians capable of mobilising popular opinion appear, but these phenomena are not really genuine social movements. (If they were, it would not be entirely correct to call them capitalist.) These movements only live as long as the persons who inspire them do, or until the harshness of capitalist society puts an end to the popular illusions which made them possible.”

“The university cannot be an ivory tower, far away from the society, removed from the practical accomplishments of the Revolution. If such an attitude is maintained, the university will continue giving our society lawyers that we do not need.”

“Arms cannot be commodities in our world. They must be delivered to the peoples asking for them to use against the common enemy, with no charge and in the quantities needed and available.”

“The feeling of revolt will grow stronger every day among the peoples subjected to various degrees of exploitation, and they will take up arms to gain by force the rights which reason alone has not won them.”

“Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company United Fruit], convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.”

“We should not go to the people and say, "Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things." We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people.”

“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.”

“Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.”

“Not for a long time shall we be able to know if President Johnson ever seriously thought of bringing about some of the reforms needed by his people — to iron out the barbed class contradictions that grow each day with explosive power. The truth is that the improvements announced under the pompous title of the "Great Society" have dropped into the cesspool of Vietnam.”

“Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.”

“In the field of ideas not involving productive activities it is easier to distinguish the division between material and spiritual necessity. For a long time man has been trying to free himself from alienation through culture and art. While he dies every day during the eight or more hours that he sells his labour, he comes to life afterwards in his spiritual activities.
But this remedy bears the germs of the same sickness; it is as a solitary individual that he seeks communion with his environment.”

“Everything we thought and felt in that past period ought to be deposited in an archive, and a new type of human being created.”

“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!”

“Revolution, in history, is like the doctor assisting at the birth of a new life, who will not use forceps unless necessary, but who will use them unhesitatingly every time labor requires them. It is a labor bringing the hope of a better life to the enslaved and exploited masses.”

“Now in the mountains and fields of America, on its flatlands and in its jungles, in the wilderness or in the traffic of cities, on the banks of its great oceans or rivers, this world is beginning to tremble. Anxious hands are stretched forth, ready to die for what is theirs, to win those rights that were laughed at by one and all for 500 years.”

“There are no other alternatives; either a socialist revolution or a make-believe revolution.”

“Other nations of the world summon my modest efforts of assistance.”

“The people did not talk about reciprocal concessions but demanded liberties and guarantees, which brought inevitably in many sectors a crueler war than the French would have waged otherwise.”

“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón”

“The only way to solve the problems now besetting mankind is to eliminate completely the exploitation of dependent countries by developed capitalist countries, with all the consequences that this implies.”

“How close we could look into a bright future should two, three or many Vietnams flourish throughout the world.”

“The struggle against imperialism, for liberation from colonial or neocolonial shackles, which is being carried out by means of political weapons, arms, or a combination of the two, is not separate from the struggle against backwardness and poverty. Both are stages on the same road leading toward the creation of a new society of justice and plenty.”

“In order to develop a new culture, work must acquire a new status. Human beings-as-commodities cease to exist, and a system is installed that establishes a quota for the fulfillment of one's social duty. The means of production belong to society, and the machine is merely the trench where duty is performed.”