On Friends And Friendship

              

Two Traveling Angels....... this one will make you think twice!!!!! ..

Keep reading to the bottom of the page -- don't

stop at the feet (You'll see).

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a

wealthy family.

The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the

mansion's guest room.

Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement.

As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole

in the wall and repaired it.

When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied,

"Things aren't always what they seem"

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but

very hospitable farmer and his wife.

After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels

sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest.

When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and

his wife in tears.

Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in

the field.

The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could

you have let this happen?

The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused.

The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and

you let the cow die..

"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied.

"When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was

gold stored in that hole in the wall.

Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his

good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it."

"Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death

came for his wife I gave him the cow instead.

Things aren't always what they seem."

Sometimes that is exactly what happens when things don't turn out

the way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that

every out come is always to your advantage. You just might not know it

until some time later...

Oooo

Some people 

come into our lives 

and quickly go.. 

oooO

 Some people

 become friends

 and stay awhile...

leaving beautiful Oooo

footprints on our 

hearts... 

oooO

 and we are

 never

 quite the same

because we have

made a good

friend!!

Yesterday is history.

Tomorrow a mystery.

Today is a gift.

That's why it's called the present!

I think this is special...live and savor every

moment... This is not a dress rehearsal!

 TAKE THIS LITTLE ANGEL

 AND KEEP HER CLOSE TO YOU

SHE IS YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL

 SENT TO WATCH OVER YOU

____

Right Now -

-somebody is thinking of you.

-somebody is caring about you.

-somebody misses you

-somebody wants to talk to you.

-somebody wants to be with you.

-somebody hopes you aren't in trouble.

-somebody is thankful for the support you have provided.

-somebody wants to hold your hand.

-somebody hopes everything turns out all right.

-somebody wants you to be happy.

-somebody wants you to find him/her.

-somebody is celebrating your successes.

-somebody wants to give you a gift.

-somebody thinks that you ARE a gift.

-somebody loves you.

-somebody admires your strength.

-somebody is thinking of you and smiling.

-somebody wants to be your shoulder to cry on.

WORKERS , A CLASS FOR THAT CHANGE

           
Karl Marx's claim that the working class has the power to change the world is perhaps his most important contribution to socialist theory. Before Marx workers were viewed at best as victims of the system or more typically as a rabble whose existence threatened civilization. Marx challenged these assumptions, arguing that workers' collective struggles for freedom pointed towards a potential socialist alternative to capitalism.
This vision is widely disparaged today. However, critics of Marx often miss their target. This is particularly true of those who reject his model of class from "common sense" or sociological perspectives which tend to equate class with social stratification—the various ways of differentiating people along lines of income, status, occupation or patterns of consumption. What, it is asked, do university-educated teachers, factory workers or low-paid shop workers have in common?
Viewed from the perspective of these and other differences it seems obvious not merely that old patterns of class struggle are less relevant to politics than they once were, but more profoundly that actual patterns of difference are becoming so complex that appeals to class are out of date.
But this tendency to one-sided emphasis differences within the workforce only makes sense if stratification is viewed in isolation from the broader process of exploitation. Marx, by contrast, showed how capitalism's complex process of exploitation creates not only a myriad of differences across the labor force, but also common relations that cut across differences of income, occupation, status, etc. It is these common relations that make a class a class. Marx's model of exploitation does not lead Marxists to dismiss differences within the working class. Rather it points to a material basis for solidarity across these divisions.
Marx's method
Marx's approach to the study of class is best understood historically. He argued that although we can distinguish humans from other animals by all manner of criteria, our ancestors actually distinguished themselves from the natural world through social and purposeful work aimed at transforming nature to meet their needs. Of pivotal importance to this process was the Neolithic Revolution, the moment 9,000 to 10,000 years ago when groups of humans who had until then existed by foraging from nature, broke with ancient patterns of behavior to begin cultivating crops.
By remaking themselves as farmers, humans for the first time had systematically to produce a surplus in order to reproduce their farms over time—for example, to provide for grain reserves to guard against bad harvests. This created a new social problem: who controls the surplus? Classes (along with states and woman's oppression) emerged when minorities—after a very long transitional period—fixed their control over the surplus produced by the rest of society.
Understood from this perspective, class is not a universal characteristic of human history but has a definite historical origin in the emergence of a particular relationship by which one group gained control over the social surplus produced by another.
This approach to the study of class has three great strengths. First, it allowed Marx to phase history by examining the different ways that surpluses are extracted by the ruling class from the producers: for instance the way feudal lords exploit peasants is different to the way capitalists exploit wage laborers, and this results in different forms of social conflict in feudal and capitalist societies.
Second, by pointing to the origins of class this model illuminates the necessary conditions for the abolition of class: whereas class emerged when there was enough surplus to allow an elite to take control but not enough for these benefits to be enjoyed by everyone, the possibility of overcoming class divisions developed when the level of surplus rose to a point where these benefits could be generalized—something Marx showed capitalism had made possible.
Third, by putting the production of a surplus at the core of his model of class, Marx demonstrated the intrinsic relations between the wide variety of roles within the capitalist economy.
Indeed, Marx's conception of capitalist class relations only makes sense in terms of his dynamic model of capital accumulation. Capitalism is a novel and uniquely dynamic mode of production that emerged when the direct producers (the peasantry) were removed from control over the land to become "proletarians", people for whom survival depends on selling their ability to work in the labor market. This shift in social relations was incredibly important because it created the conditions by which capitalism became simultaneously the most dynamic and the most out of control (or "alienated" as Marx called it) social system known to history.
Peasant production
The relative stability of peasant production was rooted in the effective control peasants tended to have over the land: they produced largely for themselves (with a percentage being taken in tax by the lords) supplemented with a small amount of bartering or market exchange.
By contrast, the system based on wage labor is one in which workers are compelled to seek work wherever they may find it. This characteristic of wage labor allows capitalists to redistribute labor (through redundancies in one area coupled with growth elsewhere) from less to more profitable areas. Moreover, because production is for the market, capitalists constantly feel a pressure to innovate. Taken together, these conditions mean that labor will tend to be redistributed to the most efficient producers. Wage labor thus underpins a tendency for the productivity of labor to increase under capitalism.
Though Marx wrote a great deal on the relationship between wage labor and the dynamism of the capitalist system, he never finished the section of Volume Three of Capital in which he began to define class. Nevertheless, he left enough material for us to reconstruct a model of class from his works.
One important attempt to do this was made by Lenin. He defined class as a relationship: workers sell their capacity to work while capitalists buy these abilities. The great strength of this approach was its illumination of similarities between superficially different jobs.
Unfortunately, it is not a wholly satisfactory model. For instance, modern capitalism operates through senior managers who, like workers, often sell their ability to work, but who, unlike workers, are not exploited (indeed they play a key role in the exploitation of others). There are also other groups whose conditions of life overlap both with capitalists above and workers below them—middle managers, certain professionals and so on. These "new middle classes", whose existence reflects the growing complexity of the capitalist labor process, tend to help maintain the exploitation of workers while simultaneously experiencing pressures that partially parallel those felt by these workers.
The most sophisticated attempt to reconstruct Marx's theory of class in relation to the complex and developing social process of exploitation was outlined by Geoffrey de Ste Croix in his magnificent Class Struggles in the Ancient Greek World. He argued that, "Class (essentially a relationship) is the collective social expression of the fact of exploitation, the way in which exploitation is embodied in social structures... A class...is a group of persons in a community identified by their position in the whole system of social production."
Exploitation
Once we think of class in terms of a complex process of exploitation and capitalism as a uniquely dynamic mode of production we can begin to understand how increases in the productivity of labor will lead to constant changes in the structure of the working class.
This has happened, for instance, in manufacturing. Though British manufacturing workers do not have the social weight they once did, increases in the productivity of labor mean that, despite the decline in the number of manufacturing jobs, in 2007 British manufacturing output was at an all-time high.
Not only does this imply that manufacturing workers can become objectively stronger at the same time as their absolute numbers decline, but it also suggests that the introduction of new technologies means that modern workers need very different skills than did their predecessors.
One result of these changes is that modern workers will have a very different level of formal education than did workers in the past. If in the past education was the preserve of the elite, today a formal education (at least to the level of basic literacy and numeracy skills and, for increasing numbers, to university level) is a necessary prerequisite for almost every job. This process has had two consequences.
First, workers are much better educated than ever before: indeed, the majority of modern workers are significantly better educated than were even the bulk of rulers from most of the past, and this helps prepare them to take democratic control over society as a whole.
Second, viewing the education system from the point of view of the capital accumulation process allows us to recognize how educators relate to other workers. Because industry needs educated workers, it needs educators. Moreover, because mass education is (in essence) a process designed to produce the next generation of workers, it is qualitatively different in function from earlier forms of education which focused merely on equipping the elite with the skills and confidence required to rule.
Most teachers today contribute educated workers to the production process, and they do this as wage labors who sell their ability to work like other workers. This creates a life experience that increasingly parallels that of other workers: they are under constant pressure to increase their efficiency by educating more students at less cost.
A similar story could be told of the health and social service systems. Educated workers are (from the point of view of capitalism) an expensive resource, and it would be a waste to allow illness etc to remove them from the labor market. Like the education system, therefore, health and social service systems are best understood as essential to the process of exploitation. Consequently, those nurses, social workers, administrators and so on who work in these areas are best understood as part of the working class because of the role they play in maintaining the capital accumulation process.
This is not to say that the health and education systems can simply be reduced to the needs of capital—it is clear that social movements have put demands on these institutions which have broadened their functions in ways that escape capital's narrow focus on boosting profitability. Nevertheless, because these structures essentially grew in response to the needs of capital, the vast bulk of those who work in them are best understood as part of what Marx called the "collective laborer".
Common interest
By generalizing this perspective we can grasp that despite workers doing innumerable different jobs of different status and at different rates of pay, they are all part of the exploited collective laborer, and they all experience similar pressures to increase their productivity. There exists a common interest across the working class to (collectively) resist capitalist exploitation in the name of a democratic alternative that does away with exploitation altogether.
By contrast, capitalists are those who sit atop this process of exploitation and who surround themselves with layers of functionaries- managers, the judiciary, an apologetic media, the police, the army, etc-who act to ensure the continuation of the conditions of exploitation. However, while capitalists command the exploitation process, production for the market ensures that they, like workers, are alienated because they have no overall control over a system governed by blind, unplanned competition between rival capitals.
Though capitalism ensures that everyone is alienated, capitalists not only benefit from control over the exploitation process but also tend to experience this alienation as freedom and self-realization. Workers, by contrast, are exploited and tend to feel degraded by their experience of alienation.
These differences create an antagonistic relationship which means that capitalism is best understood not simply through class divisions (stratification) but more profoundly as a system of class struggle. Exploitation as a social process not only creates objective links between various workers as part of the collective laborer, but also creates an antagonistic relationship with the capitalists and those upon whom they depend for the smooth running of the system: those who the Russian Marxist Bukharin called—in a slightly different context—the "collective exploiter".
Once we recognize that class struggle rooted in exploitative relations is at the core of the capitalist system, we can see that workers have a unique power within capitalism. Because the system depends upon the exploitation of wage labor, workers have the potential power to bring it down.
Why the working class?
This is why Marxists argue that anti-capitalists should orientate towards the working class. We have no illusions about workers being angels, but we do recognize that they have the strategic power to turn off the flow of profits. And it is the emergence of this collective labor that creates the potential for the producers to replace alienated market relations with democratic control over the production and distribution of the social surplus: socialism.
While refusing to romanticize workers, we nevertheless recognize that in order to develop the collective organizations necessary to resist and ultimately defeat capitalism they must overcome the divisions within their ranks. They must struggle for solidarity to overcome not only the various forms of stratification noted above, but also those numerous divisions along lines of oppression—racism, sexism, homophobia, etc—by means of which the working class is often divided against itself.
Whereas contemporary cultural theorists tend, like sociologists of class, to fixate on the differences between various oppressed groups, once we recognize that all members of these groups are in fact integrated one way or another into the capitalist process of exploitation, we can begin to see a basis for universal liberation.
By contrast with those who conceive oppression merely as difference, our argument that the working class includes all those who are related to the (broadly conceived) process of exploitation allows us to grasp how it includes not merely workers of various types, but also workers from every oppressed group alongside the "reserve army" of the unemployed and those unwaged laborers who by staying at home with children, for example, help reproduce the workforce.
From this perspective it is clear that workers' solidarity can only be won by constantly challenging all those forms of oppression that divide these various groups against each other. This is why Lenin insisted that socialists should act not merely as trade union secretaries but rather as "tribunes of the oppressed". It is also why Marx called the modern working class the "universal class". He recognized that for workers to win their freedom they must struggle collectively for real democracy, and because he understood class in a broad sense he recognized that, though workers' "self-emancipation" must be won in struggle against the capitalist class, it could only be won through the general emancipation of humanity.
The return of resistance
Finally, if the possibility of a socialist alternative to capitalism is rooted in those daily forms of solidarity practiced by the collective laborer, it is in large part because the workers' movement has been in retreat since the 1980s that this image of an alternative to capitalism has gone out of favor.
The return of mass strikes from Egypt, to Greece, to Britain creates the potential for turning this situation round. Anti-capitalists can help this process by making links with the workers' movement, and hopefully this article has given some sense of why they should: workers solidarity has the potential not only to bring capitalism down but also to replace it with a democratic socialist alternative.

Misleading Masses

  
          A king who did not believe in the goodness of God, had a slave who, in all circumstances, said: My king, do not be discouraged, because everything God does is perfect, no mistakes!

One day they went hunting and along the way a wild animal attacked the king. His slave managed to kill the animal, but could not prevent his majesty losing a finger.

Furious and without showing his gratitude for being saved, the nobleman said "Is God good? If He was good, I would not have been attacked and lost my finger."

The slave replied only "My king, despite all these things, I can only tell you that God is good, and he knows the "why" of all these things.What God does is perfect. He is never wrong!"

Outraged by the response, the king ordered the arrest of his slave.  Later, he left for another hunt and was captured by savages who made human sacrifices.

In the altar, ready to sacrifice the noble savage had found that the victim had not one of his fingers, was released. According to them: it was not so complete to be offered to the gods.

Upon his return to the palace, he authorized the release of his slave that he received very affectionately.

- My dear, God was really good for me! I was almost killed by the wild men, but for lack of a single finger, I was let go! But I have a question: If God is so good, why did he allow me to put you in jail?

- My King, if I had gone with you in this hunt, I 'would have been sacrificed for you, because I have no missing finger.

Therefore, remember: everything God does is perfect. IT is never wrong  Often we complain about life and things that happen to us apparently negative,  forgetting that nothing is random and that everything has a purpose.

Ask God to inspire your thoughts, guide your actions, to ease your feelings. And do not be afraid. God is never wrong!

 HE never makes mistakes....... God is never wrong!
             This is one story to make people believe in HIM and leave every thing at the mercy of a non - existent entity ,so that man never look for real time solutions and the exploiters continue to do their dirty job in name of GODLY designed fate .All things beyond human understanding with complexities of evolutionary nature ,every phenomenon that kills en-mass and the power of homo-sapiens to think ,to love and to posses / accumulate out of greed has in-built need to deceive and what better than creating an all powerful structure for exploitation .
               There are thousands of such stories to mislead and misguide , beware friends .
 

On Reservation

       When one is at the top of a social or economic ladder , the vision gets distorted and you are bound to see the issue as small compared to it's original dimension . Positive discrimination to uplift the dis-advantaged is a welcome policy for every state which wish to project it-self as a welfare organ of governance .Indian Constitution is designed with certain goals through Directive Principles and of them is the objective of elevating the down trodden section of society . Accordingly the state incorporated - a policy of providing reservations to people coming from Scheduled Castes and Tribes in employment in Government jobs.This however could not fulfill the desired needs of an emerging economy .On the contrary this policy created divide amongst those placed higher in social structure and those who were being benefited by the policy , more over it offered an opportunity to political class to use this as a means of building vote - banks .Reservation was initially introduced for a certain time - to be extended further , if the objective is lagging but , it turned into a situation - when the rulers are put on a tiger's back .The moment you dismount the tiger - tiger will eat you up .Further ,those who tasted power out of this policy felt that if another section is provided a similar advantage ,they will be able to create another vote-bank to either solidify their grip to power or to counter one section with another .What-ever,
this fair intentions of  constitution framers is watered down by power greedy politicos , as the policy created a large inefficient machinery which can move only through the grease of corruption .
       Now we are at the cross-roads of destiny ,continue with a faulty policy or repair it ,so that the country may leap ahead into the trajectory which will take us into a developed nation , stage .The two Czars of  Indian I.T.industry , Mr Narayan Murthy and Mr.Azim Premji spoke against reservation and raised the issue of compromising efficacy .This leaves us with two well spelt posers : one , do we still need reservation and is it causing inefficiency . Both aspects are equally important : firstly - yes we still need reservations but with necessary corrections like : the families of those STs ,SCs & OBCs who are well placed already need not be provided with this benefit , Govt. must provide proper schooling to all those who it desires to cover under this privilege along with hostel facilities and lastly the reservation entitlement must be on the basis of economic positioning and not on caste ,as is now .Secondly ,efficacy must not be compromised  and for that reserve jobs only at the lowest level of it's machinery and no further ,sure it could continue to increase wages through a time scale .May good governance prevail with a true sense of uplift of those left behind . 

FDI In Retail Sector - Existing Situation

         There is however another angle to this FDI thing in retail sector :the existing scenario is that the whole-sale traders procure food from farmers at a very cheap price and not only pass it on to retailers at their own determined price but a...lso hoard the food stuff to be released at exorbitant price when the supply decreases. At times, particularly when the crop is bumper farmers are forced to throw it on roads as the transportation cost is not redeemable at other times even picking up of the crop gets nonviable economically .The 1st picture is of potato cultivation in central UP and the 2nd reality is with tomato farming .More over the traders form syndicate to exploit consumers by artificial hike in prices as is happening now and our stupid ministers are stating that the high inflation in food items is due to increased demand as people are getting more money out of growth in Indian economy ,ignoring the fact that the growth they are talking of is only for a fraction of the population - for the rest it's job-less growth . To top it all we have those vested interests represented by central minister for lobbying for sugar and onion monopolists.                                                                                                                              The perceived threat is that big multinational players like Walmart ,Tesco and Carefour will eat up neighborhood retailers and once they establish their monopoly they will sell the goods at sky-high prices ,thus consumers will not be benefited , farm produce will be snatched away at throw away returns to farmers and 4o million small shopkeepers will be thrown out of job . 

Assumptions and presumptions are not wise man's way of taking up issues ,yes politicos have their compulsions of vote bank , but it is wrongly assessed since this 40 million is the one which has a money to invest in business and they are always free to switch over to some other business activity in case their present KIRANA  store thing is turning unprofitable as they did when these people shifted from photocopying to STD booths and to recharge vouchers for mobiles and even selling of mobile phones ,after-all they are enterprising - aren't they .

It is beyond any doubt that consumers will be benefited by way of quality and economy and by whatever mathematical calculation 40 million is too small a figure compared to 1.20 billion .Lets us also not forget that the arm-twisting days of Raj era has long passed its nightmarish life span ,they need our market as we need their money .One caution is there and it could be a Red Flag for those in power : don't let them violate the law of the land and ensure implementation of labor laws with a certainty of stringent punishment for any violation .The opening of these stores must not be restricted to cities with population of 10 lakhs and more as it could be a real game changer in employment market for educated youth .

On Revolution

1 . For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ~ Mandela


2 . The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. -E Debs

3 . Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. -W Marsalis

4 . The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che

5 . Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -JFK

6 . Every generation needs a revolution. -Thomas Jefferson


7 . If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. ~Henry Ford


"The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life." ~Tupac



8 . "Poverty is the mother of all revolutions." ~Steve Jobs


9 . Violence is man re-creating himself. ~Frantz Fanon

10 . I hate victims who respect their executioners. ~Jean-Paul Sartre



11 . Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ~Simone de Beauvoir

12 . Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! ~Malcolm X

13 . A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ~Tacitus



14 . The king must die so that the country can live. ~Maximilien Robespierre



15 . All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come: the revolution. ~Victor Hugo


16 . Tell the children the truth. ~Bob Marley



17 . Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? ~Bob Marley


18 . Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! ~Bob Marley



19 . Advance, and never halt. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. ~Khalil Gibran

20 . Fight the power that be. Fight the power. ~Spike Lee


21 . He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. ~Tacitus


22 . War is a quarrel between rich thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ~Thomas Carlyle


23 . Older rich men declare war. But it is the poor youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover


24 . A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ~Elbert Hubbard


25 . A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature. ~John Stuart Mill


26 . Those who live are those who fight. ~Victor Hugo


27 . When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre


28 . To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ~George Orwell


29 . History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. ~Karl Marx


30 . Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. ~Bob Marley


31 . Better to fight for something than live for nothing. ~George S. Patton


32 . First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~Mohandas Gandhi


33 . It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Mark Twain


34 . The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. Wake up! ~Tupac Shakur



35 . Revolution is not a one time event. ~Audre Lorde


36 . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ~Thomas Jefferson


37 . You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. ~Ursula K. Le Guin


38 . Revolution is impossible until it's inevitable. ~Leon Trotsky


39 . Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. ~Tupac Shakur

40 . Revolutions are the locomotives of history. ~ Karl Marx


41 . I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.~Howard Mumford Jones


42 . It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. ~Frederick Douglass


43 . The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. ~Adrienne Rich


44 . To tell the truth is revolutionary. ~Antonio Gramsci


45 . I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ~Barack Obama


46 . The more you can increase fear of drugs, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. ~Noam Chomsky


47 . The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.~Noam Chomsky


48 . If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky


49 . If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. ~Noam Chomsky


50 . Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. ~Noam Chomsky


51 . "Revolution is not an action, it is a process." Huey Newton


52 . We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.- che

53 . We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.- che


54 . I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.- Che


55 . "Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies" - Leon Trotsky


56 . Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism" (Vladimir I Lenin)


57 . "Fascism is capitalism in decay" (Vladimir I Lenin)


58 . "Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot" (Vladimir I Lenin)


59 . "An Ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"(Friedrich Engels)


60 . Religions is the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" (Karl Marx)


61 . "I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people" (Huey Newton)



62 . "I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images" (Huey Newton)


63 . "Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment" (Huey Newton)


64 . "Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system" (Stokely Carmichael)


65 . "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man" (Che Guevara)


66 . "I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting" (Che Guevara)


68 . "We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle" (Che Guevera)


69 . "Dont mourn, Organize" (Joe Hill - IWW Union Organizer, USA)


70 . The real revolution happened when people started using the internet to fight corruption and oppression. ~Mark Zuckerberg


71 . "Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall" Wolfe Tone


72 . "Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws" Leon Trotsky


73 . The desire to revolt against oppression is the highest desire there is. ~Tupac


74 . Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. ~Jesus


75 . Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.~Colton


76 . Revolution is the larva of civilization. ~Victor Hugo


77 . It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. ~Thomas Jefferson


78 . The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. ~Phaedrus


79 . The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. ~John Hay



80 . Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ~Thomas Jefferson


81 . One of the symptoms of revolution is the sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active interest in politics. ~Lenin


82 . Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


83 . Revolutions never go backwards. ~William Henry Steward


84 . Revolutionaries are like conquerors: they must go forward. The moment they are stopped they are lost. ~Wellington


85 . An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ~Henry Clay


86 . To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.~Antoine Saint-Just


87 . A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. ~Bertrand de Jouvenel



88 . Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. ~John V. Lindsay


89 . The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ~Abraham Lincoln


90 . Everything in a revolutionary is wholly absorbed in the single thought and the single passion for revolution. ~Nechaev


91 . Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ~Karl Marx


92 . If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ~George Washington



93 . Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln



94 . When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



95 . We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


96 . "The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life." ~Tupac


97 . Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


98 . Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


99 . I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


100 . I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. ~ Martin Luther King , Jr.


101 . I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


102 . "Poverty is the mother of all revolutions." ~Steve Jobs


103 . Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


104 . Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


105 . A riot is the language of the unheard. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



106 . A right delayed is a right denied. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


107 . A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


108 . A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


109 . Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. ~Karl Marx


110 . The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. ~Karl Marx


111 . If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman


112 . No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is thought carried into action. ~Emma Goldman


113 . You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution. ~Fred Hampton



114 . You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ~Huey Newton


115 . The spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of workers continue to beat. ~Ernst Toller


116 . The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ~Abbie Hoffman


117 . I was born in revolution. ~Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)



118 . The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. ~Toni Cade Bambara


119 . Revolution begins with the self, in the self. ~Toni Cade Bambara


120 . We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us. ~Georg Buchner


121 . Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. ~Georg Buchner


123 . A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. ~James MacGregor Burns


124 . A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society. ~Daisaku Ikeda


125 . Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. ~C. Wright Mills


126 . All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ~Henry Ellis



127 . The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... ~ Jean Genet



128 . Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo


129 . To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. ~Rita Mae Brown


130 . We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. It is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ~Hoffer


131 . Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! ~Malcolm X


132 . If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. ~Mao Tse-Tung



133 . A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ~Mao Tse-Tung



134 . The seed of revolution is repression. ~Woodrow Wilson


135 . No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real! ~Fidel Castro


136 . A revolution is not a bed of roses. ~Fidel Castro



137 . When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. ~ Victor Hugo


138 . You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ~ Joseph Stalin


139 . Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. ~Mike Tyson


140 . Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. ~Rosa Luxemburg



141 . The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.~Rosa Luxemburg


142 . The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. ~Rosa Luxemburg


143 . Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. ~Rosa Luxemburg


144 . Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.~Rosa Luxemburg



145 . The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.~Vladimir Lenin


146 . The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.~Vladimir Lenin



147 . The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.~Vladimir Lenin


148 . Sometimes - history needs a push.~Vladimir Lenin


149 . Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. ~Vladimir Lenin

150 . Fascism is capitalism in decay. ~Vladimir Lenin


151 . Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. ~Vladimir Lenin


152 . The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. - Johann Most


153 . Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none! ~ Johann Most


154 . When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre


155 . I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ~Barack Obama


156 . The desire to revolt against oppression is the highest desire there is. ~Tupac


157 . Give me liberty or give me death. - Patrick Henry


158 . How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! - Samuel Adams


159 . Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. - Karl Marx


160 . You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. ~Malcolm X


161 . The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. ~Malcolm X


162 . Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. ~Malcolm X


163 . Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. ~Malcolm X


164 . Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ~Malcolm X


165 . If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.~Malcolm X


166 . It is easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Jesus Christ


167 . I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. ~Malcolm X


168 . Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. ~Malcolm X


169 . A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. ~Malcolm X


170 . I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ~ Thomas Jefferson


171 . He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King Jr.


172 . He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. Martin Luther King Jr.



173 . Workers of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains nothing to gain but your freedom. Workers of the world unite. -Karl Marx


174 . Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!" - Rosa


175 . “Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.” – Mumia Abu-Jamal

176 . "The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I." - Karl Liebknecht


177 . "History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat." - Rosa Luxemburg

178 . Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. ~Tupac Shakur


179 . Revolution today or financial fascism tomorrow! ~Unknown


180 . Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -JFK


181 . Every generation needs a revolution. -Thomas Jefferson


182 . If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. ~Henry Ford


183 . You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker. Malcolm X

184 . Capitalist created GOD out of deceit and greed . ~ C.K. Pathak
                                                                                                                             
185 . Proletariat must capture Govt., to defend it's class interest . ~ C.K.Pathak

THE GENESIS OF CORRUPTION AND ANNA'S AGITATION

      The moot cause is the system which we adopted at the dawn of our independence, Nehru might have been given an adjective of a great visionary , but he too failed in his vision in his tryst with destiny speech . The country chose for adult franchise without regard to the existing realities then ,which still prevail after six decade of our freedom. Our country was and is having many ethnicities and an amalgamation of  conflicting interest groups, what was needed at the time of getting an opportunity to govern a vast country ,rather a sub-continent with tremendous resources and a vast human potential to be developed into a grand force to meet aspirations of masses .Unfortunately we failed to en-cash upon the destined future ,which was in store ,most of our leaders being educated in west had no sense of freedom beyond the western views and a country with huge population ,negligible literacy ,high child mortality rate and above all an attitude of subject-hood due to earlier controls of monarchy ,followed by imperialist rule .The democracy ,we got into was totally devoid of the essential ingredients of democracy . Election every five years required funds by political parties and they could manages it only through use of discretionary powers vested in them in name of people's representatives to run day to day affairs of governance of the state .The servants soon turned into monstrous masters ,as people continued to look up to them for resolving their need for food ,water ,shelter .medical services ,education and what all not , but by then service orientation spirit evaporated  from those who were entrusted with that sanctimonious task. The people's system was hijacked by business corporates and today we are in a fix ,ANNA and the civil society pitted against the mighty politicos : demanding an authority to put a check on CORRUPTION , a phenomenon all too wide- spread in every walk of our life.
          Team Anna has an impeccable record but the way they are acting make them novices against their opponents , the demand is perfect and it concerns all but it lacks a planned execution .The difference between a crowd / gathering, which is inflating the ego of civil society member ,and an army which fights the enemy is : the former is not sure of it's objectives and the later is disciplined and equipped to its teeth for a planned victory over adversaries . At times the crusaders against corruption or should it be better to call them the proponents of Jan Lok-pal bill , behave even more childish than our charming prince ,PM in waiting .Often scenes are  on display around every nook and corner ,where a child insist for a particular chocolate and his / her parents trying to allure him with other things ,the child throws a tantrum and stick to his unjustified demand ,resulting in a smash . In any agitation you can't ever get all your demands met by the other party and so , intelligently you reach a compromise with some part of your charter of demand met . You then consolidate and in a due course launch another agitation with a fresh set of demands n the process goes on.
It is not at all advisable to kill the system ,no matter how corrupt it has turned into; the whole nation through the parliament of our country is appealing to ANNA  to give up his fast and he is adamant. This seems being fool-hardy ,you wear your spectacles and others their, you claim to raise the participatory democracy but with a vision all the rest get through your specs ; now this is certainly not democratic ,the basic principle on which our polity is based is majority rules and how could you ignore that the present govt. is democratically elected one  , what if it serves only corporates .
           The history of struggles clearly defines ,there must be a match between the strength of the organization and the stakes of the other side, here - the agitators are asking for the moon with zero organizational structure and the worst is they are expecting the beneficiaries of the spill from corrupt deals to design a law which will ensure that the culprit is hanged . The whole issue is being negated by pedantic approach . What if that parental smashing starts to bring things in order as it happened in case of another agitation a little while back ,entire gains made thus far will go down the drain, for this to be absorbed fully it is pertinent to grasp that those who are along side are the same people who would love to accept the bribe but will raise a hell when it's their chance to pay out.So , beloved ANNA ,YOUR LIFE IS PRECIOUS AND THE COUNTRY NEEDS YOU , haven't you declared your life is for the country ,then why be so insisting to heartless people ,sure they never wish you to live long but please think of rest of us and your motherland ; you have been my dost since long and thus it is important for giving now think politically ,give up your fast .build an organization and launch the total on onslaught when the general elections are to be held. The fears are it might get late , you have raised hopes and aspiration of people all across the country ,let your potential not be put at the alter of ego .
          At the root of decline in social values and rise in corruption is our electoral process which calls for huge amounts need in election after election by political parties ,where from they will get it but from illegal cuts and bribes by favours to corporates and brokers. Another fact is ,we have lot many laws but no will for their implementation ,take for example labor laws and labor courts ; they were conceived with of sole motive of providing quick relief to weakly positioned workers but what you see is that all labor disputes turn in long litigation - which turn frustrating .How could another law or  authority address or redress people's justified aspirations .Our system requires over-hauling and to begin with ,let the state fund election expenses , reduce the size of constituencies to be effectively  manageable and  two rounds of voting ,the winner and the runner of 1st round will contest the second and the final round to be true representative of people from that constituency . IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT ALL POLITICAL PARTIES MUST BE MADE TO FULLY IMPLEMENT DEMOCRATIC FUNCTIONING WITHIN THE PARTY AND CANDIDATES FOR ANY ELECTION ARE DECLARED CONTESTANTS ONLY AFTER THEY GET ELECTED WITHIN THEIR PARTY .IT SURE WILL HAPPEN ,SOONER THE BETTER; PEACEFULLY - MORE THAN THE BEST .