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Under the present capitalistic system venality is an all-pervading vice.

— Johann Most The Beast of Property (1884)

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The revolution of the proletariat - the war of the poor against the rich, is the only way from oppression to deliverance.

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The war of the poor against the rich is the only way from oppression to deliverance.

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Anything that can tear up the side of a mountain should definitely be effective against a high society party attended by royalty or capitalist exploiters (monopolists).

Science of Revolutionary Warfare (1978)

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell —"voluntarily" sell—himself every day and hour to the "beast of property".

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Education of the people will only then be possible, when the obstructions thereto have been removed. And that will not take place until the entire present system has been destroyed.

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