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“All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
“this sacrifice of the future of the movement for its present may be 'honestly' meant, but it is and remains opportunism, and 'honest' opportunism is perhaps the most dangerous of all”
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“The salvation of the young mind and the freeing of it from the noxious reactionary beliefs of their parents is one of the highest aims of the proletarian government.”
― The ABC of Communism
― The ABC of Communism
“A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!”
― Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
― Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
“Monogamy was the first form of the family not founded on natural, but on economic conditions, viz.: the victory of private property over primitive and natural collectivism.”
― The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
― The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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