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"In respect of time...no knowledge of ours is antecedent to experience, but begins with it." - Immanuel Kant
"Experience no doubt teaches us that this or that object is constituted in such and such a manner, but not that it could not possibly exist otherwise." - Immanuel Kant
"although analytical judgements are indeed highly important and necessary, they are so, only to arrive at that clearness of conceptions which is requisite for a sure and extended synthesis, and this alone is a real acquisition." - Immanuel Kant
"Theories thus become instruments, not answers to enigmas, in which we can rest. We don't lie back upon them, we move forward, and, on occasion, make nature over again by their aid." - William James
"Socialism properly implies above all things the co-operative control by the workers of the machinery of production; without this co-operative control the public ownership by the State is not Socialism -- it is only State capitalism." - James Connolly
"...state ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism -- if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers, and the Hangmen, all would all be Socialist functionaries, as they are State officials -- but the ownership by the State of all the land and materials for labour, combined with the co-operative control by the workers of such land and materials, would be Socialism." - James Connolly
"We study and take as an example the Soviet system, but we are developing socialism in our country in somewhat different forms."
— Josip Broz Tito
"If there is no workers democracy in the factory, there can be still less in the state. In fact, it is only in the plant that workers are in their own element; it is there that they exercise their essential social function. If the workers are slaves to their labor, then freedom outside work is only "freedom on Sundays," that is, fictional freedom." - Jacek Kuron
"A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace." - Kwame Nkrumah
"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements." - Nelson Mandela
"Tito is the shield that protects small peoples from the rain of imperialism" - Gaddafi
"Wage-earners are but slaves to the masters who hire them. They are temporary slaves, and their slavery lasts as long as they work for wages from employers, be they individuals or the state." - Gaddafi
"The exploitation of man by man and the possession by some individuals of more of the general wealth than their needs required is a manifest departure from the natural rule and the beginning of distortion and corruption in the life of the human community. It heralds the start of the exploitative society." - Gaddafi
"The freedom of a human being is lacking if his or her needs are controlled by others, for need may lead to the enslavement of one person by another." - Gaddafi
"Economic activity in the new socialist society is a productive one aimed at the satisfaction of material needs. It is not an unproductive activity, nor one which seeks profit for surplus savings beyond the satisfaction of such needs." - Gaddafi
"Reform for the colonialist Western countries is to give them all they want and to abandon all your rights...I simply say this will be their unattainable dream whether under these circumstances or under any other circumstances." - Bashar al Assad
"What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that notion were true? If no practical difference whatever can be traced, then the alternatives mean practically the same thing, and all dispute is idle." - William James
"We have accepted the challenge to re-examine everything. We urgently wish to ask of every law, every existing institution and even of every person whether or not they are furthering our integral and autonomous development." - Salvador Allende
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Dialectical Materialism
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