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Twelve thousand Algerian pilgrims went to Mecca this year. In the past there were no more than 400 a year. Where is the Communism?

— Ahmed Ben Bella

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Revolutions are very complex. Nothing is easy. Few people want to risk their necks.

I was always religious but I feel it more today because our epoch demands it.

The struggle for liberation was terrible. We were bruised and wounded by colonialism.

Far from denying our option, Islam identifies itself with equality in the minds of the masses, and therefore moves towards socialism.

At that time, the fight was for the liberation of Algeria from the French. Now there is a fight to liberate the world from globalization.

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Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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