. . . one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound … - Mikhail Bakunin

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We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.

Mikhail Bakunin

. . . one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but also across all divergences of political opinion. . . [Jews have] that mercantile passion which constitutes one of the principle traits of their national character

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In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

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Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

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The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.

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