"Political Economy regards the proletarian ... like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle." Karl Marx, German Philosopher

"All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development." Friedrich Engels, German Philosopher

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.” Vladimir Lenin, Russian Revolutionary

"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction." Leon Trotsky, Russian Revolutionary

"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat." Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Philosopher

"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour... I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals." Albert Einstein, German Physicist

“Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.” Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Revolutionary

"Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian Revolutionary

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” Martin Luther King Jr., Peaceful Civil Rights Movement Activist

“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker” Malcolm X, Radical Civil Rights Movement Activist

"It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!" Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Revolutionary

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" Ronald Wright, Canadian Author

"Socialism is in a way the shadow of capitalism. Nothing guarantees the future of socialism so much as capitalism, because socialism is capitalism's self-criticism." Richard Wolff, American Economist

"I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating." Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian Philosopher