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The Marx-Engels Reader

by Karl Marx

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May 31, 2020 07:22PM

‘I’m not a character, I’m nothing like the author, I haven’t had the experiences she writes about. But even so, this is what I feel like, inside. This is what I would sound like, if ever I were to find a voice.’

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“He looked at me the way you’d look at a poodle that suddenly started reciting Hamlet.”
― Serra Elinsen, Awoken

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“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
― Mario Savio

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“I... I cannot take you to the Pumpkin Ball.”
― Serra Elinsen, Awoken

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“Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this is the name of Socialism.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“Wellington cleared his throat. "Why Miss Braun, I would never have taken you for a bigot." Her mouth dropped open. "Welly, what do you..." She stopped and considered her words, her recent thoughts. Wellington was completely misconstruing this. "I just..." He raised one eyebrow. "Yes, yes, you are, I am afraid, my love. Just because Bettina here is a person of a somewhat deceased nature..." "You do hear yourself, don't you?" "... is a person of a somewhat deceased nature," he repeated, "you are making snap judgements about her. Mrs Marsh has spoken quite highly of Miss Spinnett, and she has performed admirably according to all accounts. In fact, her unique condition has proved remarkably useful at times.”
― Pip Ballantine, Operation: Endgame

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