The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.
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If one were to ask. . . What is slavery and I should answer in one word, murder, my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question What is property may I not likewise answer, theft. . .Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Property is theft.
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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
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A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
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