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... communism [is] therefore... the complete return of man to himself as a social (i.e., human) being -- a return become conscious, and accomplished within the entire wealth of previous development. This communism... equals humanism...

wages and private property are identical: where the product, the object of labor pays for itself, the wage is but a necessary consequence of labor's estrangement, for after all in the wage of labor, labor does not appear as an end in itself but as the servant of the wage.

To make the revolution, one must first and foremost remould oneself. Although we come from different nationalities and classes, we follow the same doctrine, pursue the same goal, are bound together for life and death, and share weal and woe. That is why we must sincerely unite. To reach our destination, to organize ourselves is not enough: we must be sincere in our minds.

"Lovers who are most deeply in love express their extreme infatuation by saying that their spirit is commingled with that of the beloved... in order to become one with it."

Sedentary people are much concerned with all kinds of pleasures... accustomed to luxury and success in worldly occupations & to indulgence in worldly desires. Therefore their souls are colored with all kinds of blameworthy & evil qualities. It will become clear that sedentary life constitutes the last stage of civilization & the point where it begins to decay. Bedouins are closer to being good than sedentary people..

Human social organization is something necessary. The philosophers expressed this fact by saying: 'Man is "political" by nature.' That is, he cannot do without the social organization for which the philosophers use the technical term 'town' (polis)." - pp. 45

"Post-conflict experts have gotten the prestige w/o the stigma of imperialism. Their implicit denial of the difference of cultures is the new brand of international intervention. Their policies fail but no one notices, and there is no one to take formal responsibility. Neo-colonialists' uselessness benefits them. By avoiding any serious action they re able to escape accusations of racism, exploitation, or oppression"

"Neither the Islamists nor Communists created countrywide links or built up a rural political base. Both had as their objective the seizure of the state apparatus so that they could use it and it's resources to implement their respective ideologies." Fatal mistake, as Guevara would tell you.

"[I]n capitalism 'every man speculates upon creating a new need in another in order to force him to a new sacrifice, to place him in a new dependence, and to entice him into a new kind of pleasure and thereby into economic ruin....'"