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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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7 years, 5 months ago

into the dustbin of history

Now transformed into a small minority, the Right srs and Mensheviks attacked the Bolshevik action. Even Martov denounced the “coup d’état,” but also put forth a resolution calling for an interim all-Soviet government and plans for a constituent assembly. Many Bolsheviks supported the motion and it …

—p.26 The First Red Century The Few Who Won (17) by Bhaskar Sunkara
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there’s nothing wrong with horizons

The unprecedented success of Bernie Sanders’s run and his enduring popularity should have been a wake-up call to much of Leftworld: the country is ready for working-class politics, and even for the s-word, as long as we talk about it in everyday, tangible terms.

And yet, much of the radical left…

—p.14 The New Communists (11) by Adaner Usmani, Connor Kilpatrick
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in a higher phase of communist society

[...] with an equal performance of labour, and hence an equal share in the social consumption fund, one will in fact receive more than another, one will be richer than another, and so on. To avoid all these defects, right instead of being equal would have to be unequal. But these defects are inevit…

—p.615 Karl Marx: Selected Writings Critique of the Gotha Programme (610) by Karl Marx
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still communists in their own view

[...] The majority would be justified in dissolving the London branch and expelling the minority as being in conflict with the principles of the League. I do not wish to put a motion to that effect as it would cause a pointless scandal and because these people are still communists in their own view…

—p.327 Speech to the Central Committee of the Communist League (326) by Karl Marx
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the richer will be the crumbs that fall to him

To say that the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital is only to say that the more rapidly the worker increases the wealth of others, the richer will be the crumbs that fall to him, the greater is the number of workers that can be employed and called into existence, the more can the…

—p.287 Wage-Labour and Capital (273) by Karl Marx