About Envor Hoxha
Enver 
Enver Hoxha Quotes:
Hoxha,born in Ergiri in 1908,wielded dictatorial power over Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985.Serving as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania,he transformed the nation into a staunch one-party communist state.Under Hoxha's rule,Albania experienced significant reconstruction,marked by the establishment of its first railway,a surge in literacy rates,and agricultural independence.However,his regime employed harsh tactics,including the prohibition of foreign travel,state atheism,and persecution of religious figures.Hoxha's adherence to anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism influenced Maoist parties worldwide,with his government eventually giving way to the fall of communism in Albania under Ramiz Alia.
1.Even if we have to go without bread,we Albanians do not violate principles.We do not betray Marxism-Leninism.
2.No library could hold all the books,magazines,newspapers and other publications which attack Marxism-Leninism,no one can calculate or even imagine the quantity and extent of the anti-communist propaganda of imperialism.
3.It is not without purpose that the bourgeois parties apply certain organizational and political orientations and forms.For example,they allow anyone to enter or leave their ranks whenever he wants.All are 'free' to talk and shout,to deliver discourses at meetings and at rallies,but no one is allowed to act,to go beyond the bounds of the so-called freedom of speech.The transition from freedom of speech to concrete actions is classified and treated as an act of anarchists,criminals and terrorists.
4.The difference between a communist party and a bourgeois party in State leadership is not a 'minor'one, but a very great,profound,class difference of principle,which cannot be reduced to the 'rotation'of party leaders in political power.
5.Faced with such an extremely serious and dangerous situation,and being unable to convince the government officials of the so-called western democracies to conclude a joint anti-fascist alliance,Stalin considered it appropriate to work so that war against the Soviet Union was postponed,in order to gain time to further strengthen its defences.To this end,he signed the non-aggression pact with Germany.This pact was to serve as a modus vivendi to stave off the danger temporarily,because Stalin saw the Hitlerite aggressiveness,and had made and was continuing to make preparations against it.
6.The bourgeois pseudo-democracy,the parliament which allegedly chooses the government,is nothing but a puppet in the hands of the power of capital which operates"behind the scenes"and dictates in various forms everything from outside.
7.Although the proletariat in the capitalist states may be dressed in the nylon materials which the'consumer society'produces,in fact it remains the proletariat.
8.We must fight within the framework of the Republican Constitution,'they say.And the bourgeoisie says,'Fight as much as you like within the bars of the cage of my Constitution because this does me no harm.
9.In the capitalist countries,the existence of many parties causes great confusion in people's minds.These parties are parties for votes;they are in the service of local and world capital.This united capital rules with the aid of state power and money,with the organized force of the army,the police and other organs of violence.
10.The history of the development of human society shows that the replacement of one social system by another,higher system,is not done within one day,but covers a whole historical epoch.
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11.The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and,in fact, that is their aim.On the contrary,however,they glorify us with this epithet: it is an honour for us to be Stalinists,because,since we were Stalinists,the enemy could not conquer us,and never will conquer us as long as we remain Stalinists.
12.And what does this apologist of the bourgeoisie have in mind when he talks of the extension of the «dimensions of true freedom» for the workers? Is it the «freedom» to be unemployed, the «freedom» to leave their families and homeland in order to sell the power of their muscles and minds to the capitalists of the Western world, or is it the «freedom» to pay taxes,to be discriminated against and savagely exploited by the old and the new Yugoslav bourgeoisie,as well as by the foreign bourgeoisie?
13.While world capitalism was growing weaker as an outdated order in decay,socialism in the Soviet Union was triumphing as the new order of the future and becoming an ever more powerful support for the world revolution.In these circumstances capitalism was absolutely compelled to employ all its means to strike a mortal blow at the great socialist state of the proletarians,which was showing the world the way to escape from exploitation,therefore the capitalists prepared and launched World War II.They raised,supported,
incited and armed the Hitlerites for the "war against Bolshevism", against the Soviet Union,and to realize their dream of "living space" in the East.
14.The struggle Stalin waged at the head of the Bolshevik Party against the Trotskyites and Bukharinites was a direct continuation of the struggle waged by Lenin.
Enver Hoxha Famous Quotes:
15.“The cult of the individual of Stalin should, of course be overcome.But can it be said,
as it has been claimed,that Stalin himself was the sponsor of this cult of the individual? The cult of the individual should be overthrown without fail, but was it necessary and was it right to go to such lengths as to point the finger at any one who mentioned Stalin's name,to look askance at any one who used a quotation from Stalin with great speed and zeal?Certain persons smashed statues raised to Stalin and changed the names of cities that had been named after him.But why go any further?”
16.“In order to continuously strengthen the defence of our country,it is necessary that we keep the military preparedness of all structures at a high level and perfect it day by day.”
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17.“It didn't take long till the Titoites displayed dominating tendencies, expansionism and hegemonism in their relations with the newly founded states of people's democracy,especially in their relations with our country.As we know they sought to impose their anti-Marxist political,ideological,organisational and state views on us.They went so far as to make despicable attempts to transform Albania into a republic of Yugoslavia. In this unsuccessful and disgraceful undertaking the Titoites encountered our determined opposition.At first,our resistance was uncrystallized because we did not suspect that the Yugoslav leadership had set out on the capitalist and revisionist road. But after some years,when its hegemonic and expansionist tendencies were clearly displayed, we opposed them sternly and unreservedly.”
18.“We have never cherished illusions about our enemies, we have not embraced and kissed them,we have not flattered them and we have not caressed them,we have never bowed to them.Our Party and Government have always maintained a firm,principled,Marxist-Leninist stand towards the enemies of peace and socialism;they have sharply and constantly exposed the imperialists,whether U. S. or British, French or Italian,and their policy of war and aggression;they have been irreconcilable with and have energetically and unreservedly supported the just cause of the peoples who have risen in struggle against imperialism.They have rendered all their support to the fraternal Algerian, Cuban, Congolese,Laotian and other peoples in their sacred struggle against imperialism,resolutely condemning all the aggressive attempts of imperialism.”
19.“The propaganda used and the authority the party had won during the national liberation war and during the initial steps of the construction of Yugoslavia after the war gave the Yugoslavian working class the impression that this party was in the vanguard.In reality it was not the vanguard of the working class but of a new bourgeois class that had begun to settle in.This class relied strongly on the prestige of the national liberation war of the peoples of Yugoslavia for its own counter-revolutionary aims, while it obscured the perspectives of the construction of the new society.Such a degenerate party like this was bound to lead Titoite Yugoslavia on anti-Marxist paths.”
20.“The Yugoslavs accuse us of allegedly being chauvinists,of interfering in their internal affairs, and of demanding a rectification of the Albanian -Yugoslav borders.A number of our friends think and imply that we Albanian communists swim in such waters.We tell our friends who think thus that they are grossly mistaken.We are not chauvinists, we have neither demanded nor demand rectification of boundaries.But what we demand and will continually demand from the Titoites, and we will expose them to the end for this,is that they give up perpetrating the crime of genocide against the Albanian minority in Kosova and Metohia,that they give up the white terror against the Albanians of Kosova,that they give up driving the Albanians from their native soil and deporting them'en masse' to Turkey.We demand that the rights of the Albanian minority in Yugoslavia should be recognized according to the Constitution of the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.Is this chauvinist or Marxist?”
Enver Hoxha Quotes about people:
21.“I know about your system of democracy,but in that system the workers 'hold keys of straw',as an expression of ours puts it.It is democracy for the capitalists, for the lords,but not for the workers.When we win we shall establish democracy, but not like that democracy of yours.In our country there will be democracy only for the people,while the 'keys of straw'will be in the hands of the beys,aghas and the bajraktars who have always opressed and betrayed the people.”
22“Let us look facts straight in the eye. World imperialism headed by its aggressive detachment, U. S. imperialism,is directing the course of its economy towards preparations for war.It is arming itself to the teeth.U. S. imperialism is rearming Bonn's Germany,Japan,and all its allies and satellites with all kinds of weapons.It has set up and perfected aggressive military organizations,it has established and continues to establish military bases all around the socialist camp.It is accumulating stocks of nuclear weapons and refuses to disarm,to stop testing nuclear weapons, and is feverishly engaged in inventing new means of mass extermination.Why is it doing all this? To go to a wedding party?No,to go to war against us,to do away with socialism and communism,to put the peoples under bondage.”
23.“Traitors to Marxism-Leninism,agents of imperialism and intriguers like Josif Broz Tito,try in a thousand ways,by hatching up diabolic schemes like the creation of a third force,to mislead these people and the newly-set up states [in Africa and Asia],to detach them from their natural allies, to hitch them up to U.S.imperialism.We should exert all our efforts to defeat the schemes of these lackeys of imperialism.”
24.“Our people, small in numbers,have fought during their whole existence.[The British] have fought too,but the wars of our two people have been of different characters.Our country has been invaded many times,but we have always fought the enemies,we have driven them out and we have never mixed blood with them.”
25.“The world socialist system, which includes in its fold over 1 billion people with a big economic and military potential continually growing at unprecedented rates,has become today the decisive factor in the development of the world history.It exerts a tremendous influence on the world; it has become a great attractive and revolutionizing force.The world socialist system is showing with every passing day its indisputable superiority over the capitalist system.It has become the shield of all the progressive forces of the world,the impregnable bulwark of freedom and peace,democracy and socialism.”
26.“The Albanian people will throw themselves in to the flames for their true friends,and the Soviet Union is such a friend of the Albanian people.And these are not empty words.I am expressing here the sentiments of our people and of our Party,and let no one ever think that we love the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for the sake of some one's beautiful eyes or to please some individual,but because without the Soviet Union there would be no free life in the world today,fascism and capitalist terror would reign supreme.This is why we love and will always be loyal to the Soviet Union and to the Party of the great Lenin.”
Enver Hoxha Quotes about homeland:
27.“Our only "crime" is that in Bucharest we did not agree that a fraternal communist party like the Chinese Communist Party should be unjustly condemned; our only "crime" is that we had the courage to oppose openly,at an international communist meeting the unjust action of Comrade Khrushchev,our only "crime" is that we are a small Party of a small and poor country which,according to Comrade Khrushchev,should merely applaud and approve but express no opinion of its own.But this is neither Marxist nor acceptable.Marxism-Leninism has granted us the right to have our say and we will not give up this right for any one, neither on account of political and economic pressure nor on account of the threats and epithets that they might hurl at us.On this occasion we would like to ask Comrade Khrushchev why he did not make such a statement to us instead of to a representative of a third party.Or does Comrade Khrushchev think that the Party of Labor of Albania has no views of its own but has made common cause with the Communist Party of China in an unprincipled manner,and therefore,on matters pertaining to our Party,one can talk with the Chinese comrades?No,Comrade Khrushchev,you continue to blunder and hold very wrong opinions about our Party.The Party of Labor of Albania has its own views and will answer for them both to its own people as well as to the international communist and workers' movement.”
28.“In Cambodia,the Cambodian people,communists and patriots,have risen against the barbarous government of Pol Pot,which was nothing but a group of provocateurs in the service of the imperialist bourgeoisie and of the Chinese revisionists,in particular,which had as its aim to discredit the idea of socialism in the international arena.The anti-popular line of that regime is confirmed,also,by the fact that the Albanian embassy in the Cambodian capital,the embassy of a country which has given the people of Cambodia every possible aid,was kept isolated, indeed, encircled with barbed wire,as if it were in a concentration camp.The other embassies, too, were in a similar situation.The Albanian diplomats have seen with their own eyes that the Cambodian people were treated inhumanly by the clique of Pol Pot and Yeng Sari.Pnom Pen was turned into a deserted city, empty of people, where food was difficult to secure even for the diplomats, where no doctors or even aspirins could be found.We think that the people and patriots of Cambodia waited too long before overthrowing this clique which was completely linked with Beijing and in its service.”
29.“The entire Party and country should wake up, throw into the flames and twist the neck of any one who tramples underfoot the sacred law of the Party in defense of the rights of women and girls.”
30.“No force,no torture,no intrigue,no deception can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.”
31.“Some one may pose the question:will China win her rights over the United States of America,by possessing and dropping the bomb? No,neither China nor the Soviet Union will ever use the bomb unless they are attacked by those who have aggression and war in their very blood.If the Soviet Union did not possess the bomb,the imperialists would speak in other terms with us.We will never attack with the bomb,we are opposed to war,we are ready to destroy the bomb but we keep it for defensive purposes."It is fear that guards the vineyard,"is a saying of our people.The imperialists should be afraid of us and terribly afraid at that.”
32.“The views of Tito and his associates showed from the very beginning that they were far from being “hard-line Marxists”,as the bourgeoisie calls the consistent Marxists,but“reasonable Marxists”,who would collaborate closely with all the old and new bourgeois and reactionary politicians of Yugoslavia.”
33.“This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to,it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties,and is intriguing in order to escape defeat.”
34.“The sacrifices of our people were very great.Out of a population of one million,28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded,10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour,of ground;all the communications,all the ports,mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered,and our entire national economy was wrecked.”
35."Heroj Tito,druže Tito,naÅ¡ Tito!"[Hero Tito, Comrade Tito,our Tito!].This impressed itself on me because we had heard this slogan from the Italian fascists when they shouted,"Duce a noi!"[The Duce is ours!].I was astonished how they could permit it.”
36.“Did Stalin make mistakes? Of course he did.In so long a period filled with heroism, trials, struggle, triumphs,it is inevitable not only for Joseph Stalin personally but also for the leadership as a collective body to make mistakes.Which is the party and who is the leader that can claim to have made no mistakes in their work?When the existing leadership of the Soviet Union is criticized,the comrades of the Soviet leadership advise us to look ahead and let bygones be bygones, they tell us to avoid polemics,but when it comes to Stalin,they not only did not look ahead but they turned right round,completely backward, in order to track down only the weak spots in Stalin's work.”
37.“Rankovich wants us to turn our borders into a roadhouse with two gates through which Yugoslav,Italian and Greek agents and weapons could go in and out freely,without visas,in order to bring us their "culture of cutthroats",so that Tito may realize his dream of turning Albania into the seventh republic of Yugoslavia,so that the reactionary Italian bourgeoisie may put into action for the third time their predatory intentions towards Albania,or so that the Greek monarcho-fascists may realize their crazy dream of grabbing southern Albania.Because we have not permitted and will never permit such a thing,we are "warmongers."
38.“Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia,as is well-known,but this capitalism knows how to disguise.Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind,as the world has never seen it before!The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.”
39.“The canon of the Sharia and the Church,closely linked with the laws of the bourgeosie,treated women as a commodity,a thing to be bought and sold by the male.Just as the bourgeosie had made the worker into its proletarian,so had the savage ancient canons of the shariah,the Church,feudalism and the bourgeosie, reduced woman to the proletariat of the man.”
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40.“The Soviet leaders accused Comrade Stalin of allegedly interfering in other parties,of imposing the views of the Bolshevik Party upon others.We can bear witness to the fact that at no time did comrade Stalin do such a thing towards us,towards the Albanian people and the Party of Labor of Albania,he always behaved as a great Marxist,as an outstanding internationalist,as a comrade,brother and sincere friend of the Albanian people.In 1945,when our people were threatened with starvation, comrade Stalin ordered the ships loaded with grain destined for the Soviet people,who also were in dire need of food at that time, and sent the grain at once to the Albanian people.Whereas,the present Soviet leaders permit themselves these ugly deeds.”
41.“From the changes that have occurred in the world,there must be drawn correct,revolutionary,Marxist-Leninist conclusions:there must be drawn such conclusions as not to create reformist and pacifist illusions and weaken the struggle against imperialism,but to strengthen ever more this just struggle:there must be drawn such conclusions as not to alienate the peoples from the cause of revolution,but bring them ever closer to it,not divert them from the struggle for their national liberation,but raise this struggle to an ever higher level.”
In conclusion,Enver Hoxha's quotes serve as beacons of wisdom that transcend their historical origins.Through these profound expressions,we've glimpsed into the mind of a visionary leader,gaining insights into his ideologies and political prowess.Hoxha's words echo with relevance,inviting reflection on the intricacies of power,governance,and societal dynamics.As we bid farewell to this exploration of Enver Hoxha's quotes,let us carry forward the lessons encapsulated in his eloquence,acknowledging the enduring impact of his perspectives on the tapestry of history.
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