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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be…
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a…
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
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Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free…
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...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to…
— Karl Marx
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
— Friedrich Engels
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The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
— Vladimir Lenin
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What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
— Karl Marx
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
— Gene Kelly
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As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…
— Karl Marx
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Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie…
— Michel Foucault
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World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...…
— Joseph Stalin
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Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood,…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From…
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