Louis Auguste Blanqui quotes
Louis Auguste Blanqui was a French political activist and revolutionary theorist. Known for his uncompromising advocacy of radical egalitarianism and repeated involvement in revolutionary uprisings, he became a symbol of insurrection in 19th-century France. He spent much of his life imprisoned for his revolutionary activities. Here are 5 of his quotes:
For in the end what is at issue in this idea of the cooperative is as clear as day. It is a means of preparing the daily bourgeois stew [pot-au-feu bourgeois] at all costs, divorced from any political thought, from any revolutionary struggle. It is the political and social abdication of the proletariat under the pretext of socialism; indeed it is not even that! Everyone is careful to insist and to prove that socialism has nothing to do with it, which is the truth.
Louis Auguste Blanqui
Students, young people, have the right to join together in order to guide their efforts towards a common goal, and they will use this right. As for their goal, it is simple: for them it is a matter of ensuring that the July revolution is not a lie; every edifice built by the Empire and the Restoration must be overthrown, and since not one single stone of this edifice is yet to fall, they will work indefatigably to demolish and destroy it. We call for the destruction of the university. We call for the destruction of the country's most odious and harmful monopoly, of that which stifles civilization at its source and which is the cruellest insult inflicted on human intelligence.
Louis Auguste Blanqui
Louis Auguste Blanqui
Occupation: French Socialist
Born: February 8, 1805
Died: January 1, 1881
Quotes count: 5
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