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panegyric

Marx and Engels left no detailed blueprint of what a socialist or communist society should look like, something that led academic Marxists to pronounce that Marx’s originality lay in his philosophy and economics. Others utilized his panegyrics celebrating the revolutionary capacities of capital to argue that the gravediggers were the capitalists themselves

—p.xxi Introduction to the Communist Manifesto (iii) by Tariq Ali
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what distinguishes us from the anarchists

We need revolutionary government, we need (for a certain transitional period) a state. This is what distinguishes us from the anarchists. The difference between the revolutionary Marxists and the anarchists is not only that the former stand for centralized, large-scale communist production, whi…

—p.75 The April Theses The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution ('The April Theses') (1) by V. I. Lenin
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trade-unionism was addicted to the status quo

[...] Trade-unionism, by its very nature, was addicted to the status quo. Its dialectic of partial conquests--if we ask for more we might lose what we have already won--made it a defensive, conservative and insufficient force. [...]

—p.viii Introduction to the April Theses (iii) by Tariq Ali