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In the democracies, individual ownership predominates over governmental control; in the fascist states, governmental control over individual ownership.

— Paul Mattick

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Despite the Stalin-Hitler pact, there are no greater ‘anti-fascists’ than the Bolsheviks on behalf of their own native fascism.

The trends of development indicate that the democracies travel in the direction of fascism and the fascist nations in the direction of the Russian system.

Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.

Today, great men are no longer necessary. Modern propaganda instruments can transform any fraud into a hero, any mediocre personality into an all-comprehending genius.

In order that some may lead, others must be powerless. To be the vanguard of the workers, the elite has to usurp all social key positions.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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