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All sense of dialectics is lost when someone believes that today's economy is identical to the economy 50 or 100 or 150 years ago, or that it is identical to the one in Lenin’s day or to the time when Karl Marx lived.

— Fidel Castro University of Havana address (2005)

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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

History Will Absolve Me (1953)

Capitalism is a system based on blind, destructive and tyrannical laws imposed on the human species.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

Marx and Lenin represent precisely the two human personalities that will mark the passage between prehistory and the history of mankind.

Democratic Korea, its leaders and its people will always live in our feelings of revolutionaries, patriots and fighters for the triumph of socialism.

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