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Shamed, dishonored, wading in blood and dripping with filth, thus capitalist society stands. Not as we usually see it, playing the roles of peace and righteousness, of order, of philosophy, of ethics - as a roaring beast, as an orgy of anarchy, as a pestilential breath, devastating culture and humanity - so it appears in all its hideous nakedness.

— Rosa Luxemburg The Junius Pamphlet (1915)

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Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

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Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to Socialism or regression into Barbarism.

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Socialism in life demands a complete spiritual transformation in the masses degraded by centuries of bourgeois rule.

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