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“Estrangement is manifested not only in the fact that my means belong to someone else, that which I desire is the inaccessible possession of another, but also in the fact that everything is itself - that my activity is something else and that finally (and this applies to the capitalist), all is under the sway of inhuman power”
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“Marxism has won its historic significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because, far from rejecting the most valuable achievements of the bourgeois epoch, it has, on the contrary, assimilated and refashioned everything of value in more than two thousand years of the development of human thought and culture”
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“What is the basis of bases - the class organisation of society or its productive forces? In the productive forces is expressed the materialised economic skill of mankind, his historical ability to ensure his existence”
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“To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naive as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers' wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital”
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“How much significance can twenty or thirty thousand Oppositionists have for a party of two million? In such a question, the mere juxtaposition of figures means nothing. Ten revolutionists in a regiment is enough to bring it over, in a red-hot political atmosphere, to the side of the people”
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― The revolution betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it going?
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