Astronomy, History and Film

"Cinema is for us the most important of arts" - Lenin

"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!"

On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
During his flight, Gagarin famously whistled the tune "The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows".

"The world is my country, science is my religion."
Christiaan Huygens

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature,
the heart of a heartless world,
and the soul of soulless conditions.
It is the opium of the people."
Karl Marx

Vorwärts, und nie vergessen
Worin unsre Stärke besteht!
Beim Hungern und beim Essen
Vorwärts, nie vergessen
Die Solidarität!

Auf, auf zum Kampf zum Kampf
Zum Kampf sind wir geboren
Auf, auf zum Kampf zum Kampf
Zum Kampf sind wir bereit
Dem Karl Liebknecht dem haben wirs geschworen
Der Rosa Luxemburg reichen wir die Hand
Dem Karl Liebknecht dem haben wirs geschworen
Der Rosa Luxemburg reichen wir die Hand

"... no credit is due to me for discovering either the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. . . .
What I did that was new was to demonstrate:
1) that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular historical phases in the development of production,
2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat,
3) that this dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society."
Karl Marx to J. Weydemeyer, March 5, 1852

"Man himself is the basis of his material production, as of any other production that he carries on. All circumstances, therefore, which affect man, the SUBJECT of production, more or less modify all his functions and activities, and therefore too his functions and activities as the creator of material wealth, of commodities. In this respect it can in fact be shown that ALL human relations and functions, however and in whatever form they may appear, influence material production and have a more or less decisive influence on it."
Karl Marx

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... by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State.

Wir fragen euch nicht nach Verband und Partei
Seid ihr nur ehrlich im Kampf mit dabei
Gegen Unrecht und Reaktion.
Wir sind durch die Not, durch den Hunger vereint,
Uns binden die Opfer im Kampf vor dem Feind,
Unsre Lieder der Revolution!
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"For it is the very essence of imperialism to turn men into wild, blood-thirsty animals determined to slaughter, kill, murder and destroy the very last vestige of the image of the revolutionary or the partisan; in any regime that they crush under their boots because it fights for freedom."

"The dictatorship of the proletariat is at heart the ever-expanding organization, expression and, when necessary, enforcement of the popular will at all levels of society, in order to gradually eliminate classes and exploitation. Strengthening this class dictatorship - and not the state apparatus itself - is the essence of the socialist transition, and mass socialist democracy - not state repression - must be its linchpin."

"I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from men's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interest in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life."

"One has to have a great dose of humanity, a great dose of the feeling of justice and of truth not to fall into extreme dogmatism, into a cold scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. Every day one has to struggle that this love to a living humanity transform itself into concrete acts, in acts that serve as examples, as motivation."

"America, a forgotten continent in the last liberation struggles, which is now beginning to make itself heard through the Tricontinental in the voice of the vanguard of its peoples, the Cuban Revolution, has before it a task of much greater relevance: to create a second or a third Vietnam, or the second and third Vietnam of the world."

Ernesto Che Guevara