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As a result of this failure of communist ideology to comprehend the nature of man, Stalin decided to alter the Russian constitution. No longer would economic rewards be distributed on the basis of 'need'; rather, the new concept was to be 'to each according to his work.

— Robert LeFevre The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)

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Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.

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