Another universal rule hollowed out by exceptions. Violence is rationalized once it serves the leadership.

Quote card: "No animal shall kill any other animal." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).

"No animal shall kill any other animal." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

Luxemburg ties socialism to robust dissent. Without protection for unpopular views, collective power hardens into rule by a few.

Quote card: "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918).

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918) · #luxemburg #freedom

Engels links the rise of patriarchy to the emergence of private property, arguing that it ended matrilineal systems and began the systemic subordination of women.

Quote card: "The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex." — Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884).

"The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex." — Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) · #engels #feminism

A society internalizes surveillance when power is omnipresent. The line captures how control works best when people police themselves.

Quote card: "Big Brother is watching you." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).

"Big Brother is watching you." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

A slogan that simplifies politics into tribal identity. Oversimplification prepares minds to accept later reversals without protest.

Quote card: "Four legs good, two legs bad." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).

"Four legs good, two legs bad." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

Davis argues that prisons don't solve social problems but merely hide them, warehousing people discarded by a system that produces poverty and inequality.

Quote card: "The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).

"The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) · #davis #abolition

Fanon argues that colonialism is established and maintained by violence, so its undoing cannot be a peaceful transition. It requires a forcible seizure of power by the colonized.

Quote card: "Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).

"Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization

Historical memory is political terrain. If rulers rewrite records, they script both legitimacy and what futures seem possible.

Quote card: "Who controls the past controls the future." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).

"Who controls the past controls the future." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

The revolution’s ideals are inverted to justify hierarchy. Language is weaponized to make inequality sound like a principle.

Quote card: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

Mao's statement reflects the materialist view that state power ultimately rests on the control of armed force, a central tenet of his theory of protracted people's war.

Quote card: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." — Mao Zedong, Problems of War and Strategy (1938).

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." — Mao Zedong, Problems of War and Strategy (1938) · #mao #power

Orwell’s slogans model doublethink: contradictions enforced as truth. Stability is maintained by demanding belief over evidence.

Quote card: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949).

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

Che insists that revolutionary struggle must be rooted in love for humanity, not in cold, mechanical dogma. This humanism is essential for building a new society.

Quote card: "The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965).

"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965) · #che #revolution

A distributive principle for a higher phase of socialism: contribution by capacity, access by need, beyond market equivalence.

Quote card: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" — Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875).

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" — Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) · #marx #gotha

hooks argues that patriarchy is a system of domination that everyone, regardless of gender, can participate in upholding. It is not simply 'men oppressing women.'

Quote card: "Patriarchy has no gender." — bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984).

"Patriarchy has no gender." — bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) · #hooks #feminism

Engels distinguishes revolutionary overthrow from a gradual process where the state becomes obsolete after class distinctions disappear. It's a vision of post-capitalist administration without coercion.

Quote card: "The state is not 'abolished,' it withers away." — Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878).

"The state is not 'abolished,' it withers away." — Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878) · #engels #state