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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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bombast

And on its part, German socialism recognized, more and more, its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty-bourgeois philistine

—p.62 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
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the ten demands

  1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
  2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
  3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
  4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
  5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state,…
—p.48 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
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fetters

At a certain stage in the development of these means of production and of exchange, the conditions under which feudal society produced and exchanged, the feudal organization of agriculture and manufacturing industry, in one word, the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder.

—p.14 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
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all that is solid melts into air

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence…

—p.10 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
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