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7 years, 9 months ago

an act of intellectual disburdenment

[...] Before I wrote the essays I did not believe many of the ideas espoused in them; when I wrote them, I believed what I wrote; subsequently, I have come to disbelieve some of these same ideas again--but from a new perspective, one that incorporates and is nourished by what is true in the argumen…

—p.x Against Interpretation and Other Essays A note and some acknowledgements (ix) by Susan Sontag
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for the benefit of the working class

Bourgeois socialism attains adequate expression when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.

Free trade: for the benefit of the working class. Protective duties: for the benefit of the working class. Prison reform: for the benefit of the working class. This is the last word and the o…

—p.65 The Communist Manifesto 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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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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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