“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.”
-- V.I. Lenin
"No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men."
-- Enver Hoxha
"If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?"
-- Ho Chi Minh
“Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.”
-- Enver Hoxha
"A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains."
-- Karl Marx
"Private property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all instruments of production and the distribution of all products according to common agreement - in a word, what is called the communal ownership of goods."
-- Friedrich Engels
"The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights."
-- Enver Hoxha, 1967
"Today, in fact, ‘Stalinism’ has become a meaningless term of abuse employed to denote political views with which one disagrees."
-- Bill Bland
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
-- Desmond Tutu
“The class struggle does not disappear under the dictatorship of the proletariat; it merely assumes different forms... The class of exploiters, the landowners and capitalists, has not disappeared and cannot disappear all at once under the dictatorship of the proletariat. The exploiters have been smashed, but not destroyed. They still have an international base in the form of international capital, of which they are a branch. They still retain certain means of production in part, they still have money, they still have vast social connections."
-- V.I. Lenin, 1919
"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the neighbouring marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having separated ourselves into an exclusive group and with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation. And now some among us begin to cry out: Let us go into the marsh! And when we begin to shame them, they retort: What backward people you are! Are you not ashamed to deny us the liberty to invite you to take a better road! Oh, yes, gentlemen! You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the marsh. In fact, we think that the marsh is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don’t clutch at us and don’t besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are ‘free’ to go where we please, free to fight not only against the marsh, but also against those who are turning towards the marsh!"
-- Lenin, “What is to be Done?”
"I have not brought you liberty, I found it here, among you."
-- George Kastrioti "Skanderbeg"
"[The children's] life will be better than ours; much of what was our life, they will not experience. Their lives will be less cruel. [...] Our generation has succeeded in doing a job of astounding historical importance. The cruelty of our life, forced upon us by conditions, will be understood and justified. It will all be understood, all of it!"
-- V.I. Lenin
"There is one, and only one, kind of real internationalism, and that is—working whole-heartedly for the development of the revolutionary movement and the revolutionary struggle in one’s own country, and supporting (by propaganda, sympathy, and material aid) this struggle, this, and only this, line, in every country without exception."
-- V.I. Lenin, 1917
"When the enemy attacks you, it means you are on the right road."
-- Enver Hoxha
"You'll hang me now, but I am not alone. There are two hundred million of us. You can't hang us all."
-- Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya
"The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian."
-- Enver Hoxha
"Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.”
-- J. V. Stalin, “Anarchism or Socialism?”
“Nixon is to go to Peking! We are not in agreement. Therefore I think we should write to the Chinese a letter saying that we are opposed to this decision. Nixon is an aggressor, a murderer of peoples, an enemy of socialism — especially of Albania, which the USA has never recognised as a people’s democratic state and against which it has hatched a thousand plots. The invitation to Nixon will benefit imperialism and world reaction, and will gravely harm the new Marxist-Leninist Parties which have looked upon China and Mao Tse-tung as the pillar of the revolution and as defenders of Marxism-Leninism."
-- Enver Hoxha
"It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real Marxist-Leninist party, it is only the working class through armed revolution, through violence, that can and must bury the traitorous revisionists."
-- Enver Hoxha
“There were two ‘Reigns of Terror,’ if we would but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the guillotine, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
— Mark Twain, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
Interesting blog, I as an Brazilian Marxist-Leninist, would like to hear(read) your opinion about Brazil’s represantative in the ICMLPO,the PCR,and the International Conference in general.
From my point of view, they are an excellent example of theoretical soundness and, in Brazil, are destined to reconstruct the workers movement.
I agree with your assessment. I support the ICMLPO Unity & Struggle, non-revisionist Marxism-Leninism and the line of Enver Hoxha. I also support individual Marxist-Leninist parties such as the PKSH.
Very good, interesting and very relevant collection and writing.Bravo!
Dear comrade, many congratulations and a warm shake of hands from Italy. Future belongs to us!
I appreciate your support, comrades from Italy!
Thank you comrade! Lal salaam – revolutionary greetings from India! – http://www.cgpi.org
stalinist regards from basque country.
http://www.euskalherriasozialista.blogspot.com
Hello. Believe it or not I visited your website the other day when I saw your link to me coming in. Greetings, comrades!
please, send me a email, we are interested in contac with you….
our email: ehsozialista@hotmail.com
long live to comrade hoxha from Basque country
is there a communist party that fallow hoxa line, at present wage armed struggle?
Yes, several. There’s one in Ecuador, one in Colombia, two in Turkey, one in Tunisia and elsewhere.
Most of the pro-Albania line parties that are succesfull are in the “Third World,” oddly. The only ones without strong non-revisionist line parties are in the USA, Canada and some parts of Europe.
Desde Ecuador te envío un saludo, tengo interés de enviarte algún material. Puedes escribirme al siguiente correo:
nalerios@yahoo.com
I have translated a text from APK, 12 demands to a new government.
How can I send it to you?
A great discovery!
Comrade, are you acquainted with Grover Furr – an American historian who is an authority on ‘Stalin era’?
Grover Furr reached the same conclusion like yours, namely, that Stalin was far from a ‘dictator’ he is made out to be but in fact almost almost “at the beck & call” of Soviet bureaucracy.
Great site!
Manu
Greetings ES, i’m also a brazilian Marxist-Leninist. Could you contact me?
dias.davi@uol.com.br
i enjoy your site but the critique of mao breaks my heart. hoxha is right for his criticizing mao’s accepting nixons visit and lack of “principle” but mao upheld stalin’s revolutionary ardour. hoxha specifically endorsed jiang qing and the gang of four against hua guofeng, citing his rejection of stalinism and the cultural revolution. and while hoxha may have criticized mao, relations weren’t broken until the reactionary coup d’etat introduced deng’s rightism. as for beria, i genuinely feel that he usurped power from malenkov, kaganovich, and of course molotov ensuring khrushchev’s rise.
I agree it is heart-breaking how the Chinese people’s desire for socialism was halted after the victory of the bourgeois-democratic revolution and was prevented from reaching socialism or the dictatorship of the proletariat by Maoist revisionism. But regardless, we can’t look at these things emotionally. There is much evidence China was state-capitalist from the very beginning, and it most certainly is now.
as for Mao upholding “Stalin’s revolutionary ardour” I suggest you read this: http://espressostalinist.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/series-on-maoist-revisionism-the-communist-party-of-china-and-the-20th-congress-of-the-c-p-s-u/
When you say that Hoxha endorsed Jiang Qing and the “Gang of Four” against Hua Guofeng, you are objectively wrong. Hoxha had no love for Deng or Hua (he called them fascists) but he was not impressed with the “Gang of Four” and “Lady Mao” either. His stance was just and right – the Gang of Four were a gang of revisionists too, hungry only for power and using the name of Mao to seize it. It’s possible that the Gang of Four might have been more “left-wing” than Deng or Hua, but that isn’t saying much. Jiang Qing was heavily involved in Mao’s revisionism as well.
What do you think of Hoxha’s criticisms of Beria in his work entitled “Khrushchevites”?
We do not agree politically by far. But I respect your opinions. I found your blog due to your post on Native American Genocide. I’m following you as I always like to hear other opinions on situations. Though I won’t lie – your massive amount of Albanian flags are personally disturbing. But to each his own. (And no, I’m not Serbian though my icon is of the flag. I live here now and my blog is about my journeys here. I am a Slav – Rusyn/Ruthenian – with a large minority here in Serbia.)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and criticisms. I appreciate your readership.
And I am a Marxist-Leninist, not any kind of Albanian nationalist, I assure you. I merely enjoy Albanian imagery and seek to spread knowledge of the Albanian socialist experience among other things.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
ES
What do you think of the Communist International (Stalinist-Hoxhaists)?
http://ciml.250x.com
http://archive.250x.com
I think they’re ridiculous and probably a parody of Marxism-Leninism.
I see. What is your response to the attacks of the Comintern (SH) against the ICMLPO in their Platform (http://ciml.250x.com/platform_comintern_sh.html)?
I didn’t know anything about the American-Phillipine War. I’ts so sad how Filipinos were murdered and dehumanized by the white American government. This is precisely why I hate knowing that there are people of non-white races who actually tell their children to marry white people. What they’re really saying is that the white man is better than you, and because you will never be white do the next best thing and marry someone white-so that “inferior blood” that runs through our veins will be diluted The only people that say love is color blind is the one who stares in the mirror and hates the color of the reflection he sees. I support everyone’s right to marry whom she/he pleases, but if a Filipino man ever became president, I’d want to see a Filipino woman at his side. As Malcolm X once said black men who love black women marry black women. The cartoons of the Filipinos portrayed in these racist newspapers were appalling-trying to make the Filipinos look savage and subhuman. How sick white america was at the turn of the century. They used the same tactics against blacks. As the Holy Bible states in Ecclesiates, “there’s nothing new under the sun”.
happy liberation day comrade. today is the anniversary of the albanian liberation, the only nation that completely liberated itself through domestic guerrilla action in world war 2