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"Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument."
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"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity."
"The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution."
"To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do."
"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."
"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."
"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that."
"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."
"The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow."
"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
"The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution."
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"You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected."
"On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class."
"There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time."
"Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees."
"And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders."
"Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class."
"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way."
"For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism."
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