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“Revolution consists not in the new class commanding, governing with the aid of the old state machine, but in this class smashing this machine and commanding, governing with the aid of a new machine.”
― State and Revolution: Fully Annotated Edition
― State and Revolution: Fully Annotated Edition
“When the workers of a single factory or of a single branch of industry engage in struggle against their employer or employers, is this class struggle? No, this is only a weak embryo of it. The struggle of the workers becomes a class struggle only when all the foremost representatives of the entire working class of the whole country are conscious of themselves as a single working class and launch a struggle that is directed, not against individual employers, but against the entire class of capitalists and against the government that supports that class. Only when the individual worker realizes that he is a member of the entire working class, only when he recognises the fact that his petty day-to-day struggle against individual employers and individual government officials is a struggle against the entire bourgeoisie and the entire government, does his struggle become a class struggle.”
― On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet State
― On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet State
“At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.”
― After Virtue
― After Virtue
“Man is essentially a story-telling animal, but a teller of stories that aspire to truth.”
― After Virtue
― After Virtue
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