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There is, in Marx, a precious quote: “Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve” In other words, if an ideal is conceived among a community, it is that the necessary conditions to its realisation are there.

— Marie Goldsmith The Issues of Tomorrow (1919)

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We precisely want to go beyond bourgeois rights and bourgeois-inspired justice. Every one is entitled to their existence simply in virtue of being human.

The Issues of Tomorrow (1919)

Even when a revolution is vanquished, the principles it has put forward never die. Every revolution in the 19th century has been defeated, but each one of them has been a step closer to victory.

The Issues of Tomorrow (1919)

We believe, finally, that this allows us to prepare, on top of economic and political victories, a higher stage of civilisation, both intellectually and morally.

The Issues of Tomorrow (1919)

We believe that the direct participation of the people in building the new economic forms makes the victories of the revolution more stable and ensures better their defence.

The Issues of Tomorrow (1919)

Progressive people have always known that to raise people to be better, more advanced, more cultured, they should first be raised to better living conditions; that slavery can never teach you to be free; and that a war of all against all can never engender humane feelings.

Kropotkin’s Communism (1931)

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