get in touch with the peasants, since they form about 85 per cent,


“Industrial conscription is, of course, rigidly enforced. Every man and woman has to work, and slacking is severely punished, by prison or a penal settlement.”
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

“Kant enjoyed the company of women (provided that they did not pretend to understand the Critique of Pure Reason)”
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction

“There is practically no social life, partly because of the food shortage, partly because, when anybody is arrested, the police are apt to arrest everybody whom they find in his company, or who comes to visit him.”
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

“If Russia were governed democratically, according to the will of the majority, the inhabitants of Moscow and Petrograd would die of starvation. As it is, Moscow and Petrograd just manage to live, by having the whole civil and military power of the State devoted to their needs.”
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

“Every rational being must be tempted to think that the peculiar immediacy and inviolability of self-awareness guarantee its content.”
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
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