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But where communism is really unique is in its ability to convince reasonably intelligent people that its tyranny is somehow different, and that anyone silly enough to question the suppression of human and political rights in a communist state is some kind of a right-wing lunatic.

— Phillip Abbott Luce The Intellectual Student’s Guide to Survival (1968)

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Students today don’t debate whether the state should have any control over their lives, they only debate how much control it should have.

The state sees violence as an enemy which justifies the increase of state power for fighting purposes. Thus the state can always turn any threat of force into a resource.

If the communist theories and philosophies are so rational and humanitarian, and if, as they contend, man is basically both rational and humanitarian, why have bloody violence and force been necessary to gain their ends?

The Intellectual Student’s Guide to Survival (1968)

[The state is] never a contract among peaceful men but always a conquest of one group over another.

New Leftists are not buying the collectivist doctrine of the established (Communist) organizations. They are quite simply libertarians, rebelling against unreasonable power and authority, whether it comes via established government or totalitarian (leftist) organizations.

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