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“Karl Marx: bourgeoisie and proletariat. This antithesis concentrates all antagonisms of world history into one single final battle against the last enemy of humanity. It does so by integrating the many bourgeois parties on earth into a single order, on the one hand, and likewise the proletariat, on the other. By so doing a mighty friend-enemy grouping is forged. Its power of conviction during the nineteenth century resided above all in the fact that it followed its liberal bourgeois enemy into its own domain, the economic, and challenged it, so to speak, in its home territory with its own weapons. This was necessary because the turning toward economics was decided by the victory of industrial society.”
― Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition

“We always live in the eye of the more radical brother, who compels us to draw the practical conclusion and pursue it to the end.”
― Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition

“Whoever knows no other enemy than death and recognizes in his enemy nothing more than an empty mechanism is nearer to death than life.”
― Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition

“The eighteenth-century humanitarian concept of humanity was a polemical denial of the then existing aristocratic-feudal system and the privileges accompanying it. Humanity according to natural law and liberal-individualistic doctrines is a universal, i.e., all-embracing, social ideal, a system of relations between individuals. This materializes only when the real possibility of war is precluded and every friend and enemy grouping becomes impossible. In this universal society there would no longer be nations in the form of political entities, no class struggles, and no enemy groupings.”
― Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition