"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.
~ Karl Marx ~












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"If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right...
"No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind
"The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his act...
"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.
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"Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be me...
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"Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
"Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it
"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it
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