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"A man can get to love shit if his livelihood depends on it..."

"All Petrograd, with the exception of its upper strata, was one solid meeting... Fresh and ever fresh waves of workers, soldiers, and sailors would roll up to the buildings and flood them full... Tens of thousands brimmed that immense building known as the House of the People... There was that electric tension in the air that forebodes a coming discharge. Down with Kerensky! Down with the war! Power to the soviets!"

“The proletarian, who has nothing but his two hands, who consumes today what he earned yesterday, who is subject to every possible chance, and has not the slightest guarantee for being able to earn the barest necessities of life, whom every crisis, every whim of his employer may deprive of bread, this proletarian is placed in the most revolting, inhuman position conceivable for a human being.”

“The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class.”

“Technics, as a universe of instrumentalities, may increase the weakness as well as the power of man. At the present stage, he is perhaps more powerless over his own apparatus than he ever was before.”

“[...]science, by virtue of its own method and concepts, has projected and promoted a universe in which the domination of nature has remained linked to the domination of man [...]

In the construction of the technological reality, there is no such thing as a purely rational scientific order; the process of technological rationality is a political process.”