“The U. S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.”

“Down with all colonial policy, down with the whole policy of intervention and capitalist struggle for the conquest of foreign lands and foreign populations, for new privileges, new markets, control of the Straits, etc.!”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

“In practice [the A. R. F.'s strategy] abandons the fate of our people to the caprice of the "Western" powers, particularly the U. S. A.—and these are states whose interests are opposed to ours.”

Monte Melkonian (1957–1993) National Hero of Armenia

“In the U. S. Army, you are cut down for being honest.”

Bowe Bergdahl (1986) American soldier captured by the Taliban in 2009 and released in 2014 as part of a prisoner swap

“Racial discrimination in the United States is a product of the colonialist and imperialist system. The contradiction between the Black masses in the United States and the U. S. ruling circles is a class contradiction. Only by overthrowing the reactionary rule of the U. S. monopoly capitalist class and destroying the colonialist and imperialist system can the Black people in the United States win complete emancipation. The Black masses and the masses of white working people in the United States have common interests and common objectives to struggle for. Therefore, the Afro-American struggle is winning sympathy and support from increasing numbers of white working people and progressives in the United States. The struggle of the Black people in the United States is bound to merge with the American workers’ movement, and this will eventually end the criminal rule of the U. S. monopoly capitalist class.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

“Enough already with the imperialist aggression! Down with the U. S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!”

Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela

“North American banks and capitalists soon controlled the commercial exploitation of sugar and, furthermore, a good share of the industrial output of the land. In this way, a monopolistic control was established by U. S. interests in all aspects of a sugar production, which soon became the predominant factor in our foreign trade due to the rapidly developing monoproductive characteristics of the country.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

“Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.”

Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor

“The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of 'U. S. soldier' is just the lie of fools.”

Bowe Bergdahl (1986) American soldier captured by the Taliban in 2009 and released in 2014 as part of a prisoner swap

“The two-party system is breaking down into a race system.”

Crispin Sartwell (1958) American philosopher