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History tells us that these things were, and biology and psychology tell us why they were; but history and biology and psychology do not make these things alive.
Primitive communism, chattel slavery, serf slavery, and wage slavery were necessary stepping-stones in the evolution of society.
capitalism, rotten-ripe, sent forth that monstrous offshoot, the Oligarchy.
Thus do we poor humans attain our ends, striving through carnage and destruction to bring lasting peace and happiness upon the earth.
You can prove everything and nothing, and no two of you can agree upon anything.
"The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience. The metaphysician reasons from theory to facts, the scientist reasons from facts to theory.
One of the pleasant and axiomatic fictions they have created is that they are superior to the rest of mankind in wisdom and efficiency.
When their morality is questioned, they grow only the more complacent and superior.
"No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional.
It does not matter whether it is in one year, ten, or a thousand—your class shall be dragged down. And it shall be done by power.
