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Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man.

— Muammar Gaddafi The Green Book (1975)

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The final step is when the new socialist society reaches the stage where profit and money disappear.

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On that final stage, profit will automatically disappear and there will be no need for money.

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Thus the working class turns out to be a separate society, showing the same contradictions as the old society.

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The most tyrannical dictatorships the world has known have existed under the aegis of parliaments.

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