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"si intentáis cercar nuestros bienes comunales (...) os daremos caza, como sanguijuelas de caballo (...) hasta que hayamos derramado la sangre de todos aquellos que quieren robar a los inocentes que no han nacido (...) como aves de rapiña estaremos secretamente al acecho para verter sangre de los susodichos tipos cuyos nombres y moradas son como úlceras pútridas en nuestras narices"

And so we reach the dreaded chapter on class consciousness...

Wasn't a huge fan in grad school. Still disagree vehemently with the philosophical methodology employed in the preface, along the lines of Levine's critique, but I think Thompson ironically doesn't utilize his idealist understanding of class consciousness like he sets out to, and his work is better for it.