I do accept the need for compromise and imperfection.

Hence my acceptance of a transitional socialist state on the way to full communism.

The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

• Sophie Scholl

Centrists love to use big words to hide the fact that they’re cowards who won’t stand up to power/dumb as shit

Compromise? What compromise have neoliberals made to the ‘hard left’ ever? They don’t compromise with the hard left, they compromise with fascists.

Adulthood is paying more for worse health outcomes because you accept that the middleman must make his living by denying your insurance claims.

Similar for landlords and your boss.