The Faux-Lefts aversion to the word "degenerate"

[Damocles]

The word "degenerate" is apparently a fascist word.
This is insisted on by people I loosely term the "Buttplug Left". That is they don't read Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao or Kim Il Sung. They are mostly preoccupied with what they can shove up their arse and their political activity is relegated to this in its entirety

In that spirit I am collating every time some of the most outstanding communists used the word "degenerate" and perhaps Char can knock them into some good looking quote images. Mostly to trigger these red-libs

I'll start with the immortal Kim Il Sung

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Volume 1

Even after the establishment of the socialist system, the remnants of the exploiting class remain for a long time, the corroding effect of the lingering outmoded ideas continues and, moreover, the imperialists’ ideological and cultural infiltration is intensifying continually. In these conditions, if ideological education is lax, schoolchildren may be affected by unsound ideas and become good-for-nothings who dislike struggle, and idle away their time seeking only personal comfort and pleasure. If the younger generation is infiltrated by corrupt ideas and becomes degenerate, there will be no heirs to our revolution. If this were to occur it would be impossible not only to continue with the revolution but to preserve the gains the revolution has achieved.

Kim Il Sung

The anti-Party, counterrevolutionary elements who have recently been exposed and criticized are not only political careerists and conspirators; they are also turncoats of the revolution and Right-wing capitulationists who are degenerated in their class character and have become deteriorated ideologically.

Kim Il Sung

The manoeuvres of the US and other imperialists now consist, on the one hand, of threatening the peoples of the revolutionary countries by nuclear blackmail and, on the other, of undermining the socialist states from within by infiltrating bourgeois ideas and culture into them. The bourgeois art and literature spread by imperialists inflict serious harmful damage by reducing people to spiritual cripples or moral degenerates and instigating them to counterrevolution by sending the wind of “freedom.” They instil all kinds of immorality and depravity, sexual passion, murder, plunder, sorrow and despair.
In the face of the serious historical lesson, the modern revisionists, enslaved by the illusions of imperialism, praise bourgeois art and literature and the bourgeois way of life, and reject the spirit of the Party, the working class and the people in socialist art and literature, attempting to obliterate the traditions of revolutionary art and literature and opposing the Party’s leadership in this area.

Kim Il Sung

In artistic and literary works created recently the love of young men and women is often described in terms of triangular love affairs. In the long story entitled The Fog Creeps over a New Hill, the love affair of heroes and heroines has been set in a triangular mode. Triangular love is a dissolute and philistine form of love and a mode of depiction habitually used by morally-degenerate bourgeois writers.

Kim Il Sung

Forbidding them to criticize their officers was not for the good of the officers themselves. If they value and love the officers sincerely, they should make a strong demand for their Party life and criticize them strictly. Without education and control a man will naturally degenerate. Many officers who were free from the education and control of the Party in the past lagged behind ideologically, behaved haughtily and bureaucratically and ultimately committed grave errors.

Kim Il Sung

If soldiers are not equipped with the revolutionary ideology of the leader, they may degenerate under the influence of unsound ideologies and fail to follow the road of revolution faithfully.

Kim Il Sung

If an intensive campaign to transform intellectuals on a revolutionary pattern and assimilate them to the working class is not launched, egoism, liberalism and other outmoded ideological survivals may increase and they may degenerate ideologically under the influence of dogmatism and revisionism.

Kim Il Sung

Those who dislike and neglect organizational life will become degenerate ideologically and, in the long run, stray from the path of the revolution.

Kim Il Sung

[Damocles]

Kim Il Sung

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Volume 2

Steeped in the bourgeois culture and way of life promoted by modern revisionists and imperialists, young people will become egoists who do not care about their society or collective, but are interested only in money–degenerates who dislike struggling and working and who are only after a life of comfort. A vigorous struggle must be launched among the young people against egoism, liberalism and the decadent way of life.

Kim Il Sung

[Isabelle]

Effete, depraved, and degenerate this social group presents a striking example of the most revolting parasit- ism. To what depths of depravity this degeneration can descend is borne out by the scandalous Moltke v. Harden trial in Berlin[Euhlenberg Affair which was a homosexual scandal surrounding the Kaiser of Germany), which revealed what a filthy cesspool the influential camarilla at the court of the semi-autocratic German Emperor Wilhelm II really was.

Lenin, Volume 13

[Isabelle]

Mao

The Japanese imperialist secret services are ceaselessly trying to disrupt our Party and to smuggle undercover traitors, Trotskyites, pro-Japanese elements, degenerates and careerists into its ranks in the guise of activists.

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Mao Tse Tung, Vol 2

These types account for 80 to 90 per cent of the cadres guilty of serious violations of the law and of discipline, and degenerate cadres make up the rest. Therefore, the main problem in the backward townships is to strike at the counter-revolutionaries, but the degenerate cadres must be weeded out too.

Mao Tse Tung, Vol 5

Those people are individualists, bureaucrats, subjectivists: some have even become degenerate elements. There are some people who adopt the guise of Communist Party members, but they in no way represent the working class; instead they represent the bourgeoisie. All is not pure within the Party. We must see this point, otherwise we shall suffer.

Mao, Vol 8

[JoeySteel]

Stalin

Some comrades have interpreted the thesis about the abolition of classes, the creation of a classless society, and the withering away of the state as a justification of laziness and complacency, a justification of the counter-revolutionary theory of the extinction of the class struggle and the weakening of the state power. Needless to say, such people can not have anything in common with our Party. They are either degenerates or double- dealers, and must be driven out of the Party. The abolition of classes is not achieved by the extinction of the class struggle, but by its intensification. The state will wither away, not as a result of weakening the state power, but as a result of strengthening it to the utmost, which is necessary for finally crushing the remnants of the dying classes and for organising defence against the capitalist encirclement that is far from having been done away with as yet, and will not soon be done away with.

Stalin, Vol 13

In the face of these imposing achievements, the opponents of the general line of our Party, all the various "Left" and "Right" trends, all the Trotsky- Pyatakov and Bukharin-Rykov degenerates were forced to creep into their shells, to tuck away their hackneyed "platforms," and to go into hiding. Lacking the manhood to submit to the will of the people, they preferred to merge with the Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries and fascists, to become the tools of foreign espionage services, to hire themselves out as spies, and to obligate themselves to help the enemies of the Soviet Union to dismember our country and to restore cap- italist slavery in it.
Such was the inglorious end of the opponents of the line of our Party, who finished up as enemies of the people. When it had smashed the enemies of the people and purged the Party and Soviet organizations of degenerates, the Party became still more united in its political and organizational work and rallied even more solidly around its Central Committee (Stormy applause. All the delegates rise and cheer the speaker. Shouts of "Hurrah for Comrade Stalin!" "Long live Comrade Stalin!" "Hurrah for the Central Committee of our Party!")

Stalin,Vol 14

[Charlotte]

perhaps Char can knock them into some good looking quote images

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