Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from the first dawn to the present day...
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People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.Friedrich Engels
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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The report of the Central Commission relates that the manufacturers began to employ children rarely of five years, often of six, very often of seven, usually of eight to nine years that the working day often lasted fourteen to sixteen hours, exclusi
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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