Slight content warning: mention of the word “naked”
“To say: I ‘appreciate’ your political, approach, ‘but’ it is only a political one and we ‘also need an economic one’, is tantamount to saying: I ‘appreciate’ your point that in taking that particular step you are liable to break your neck, but you must also take into consideration that it is better to be clothed and well-fed than to go naked and hungry.” - Lenin, Once Again On The Trade Unions, The Current Situation and the Mistakes of Trotsky and Buhkarin (https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/jan/25.htm)
“It is typical of a Liberal to speak of ‘Democracy’, but a Marxist never forgets to ask: “For what class?”.”
Oh who is it from?
Lenin in his “The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky”
Still need to read it, as i do with everything else lol, Im just slow to read. But this quote stood out to me when I first was venturing into Marxism.