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“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”
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“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”
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“The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.”
― The Coming Insurrection
― The Coming Insurrection

“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
― The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
― The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle

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