"Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence."
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"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence."
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"We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."
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"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
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"Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker."
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"Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."
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"All I know is that I am not a Marxist."
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"The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat."
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"The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself."
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"Change the economic base and you will change human beings."
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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."
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"Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat."
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"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."
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"I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above."
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"Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general."
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"Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!"
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"The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions."
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"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."
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"I do not like money, money is the reason we fight."
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"Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history."
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