There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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Capital is dead labor which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
What is now happening to Marx’s theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). And more and more frequently German bourgeois scholars, only yesterday specialists in the annihilation of Marxism, are speaking of the “national-German” Marx, who, they claim, educated the labor unions which are so splendidly organized for the purpose of waging a predatory war!
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic republic. But this democracy is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation and consequently always remains, in effect, a democracy for the minority, only for the propertied classes, only for the rich. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slaveowners. Owing to the conditions of capitalist exploitation, the modern wage slaves are so crushed by want and poverty that “they cannot be bothered with democracy,” “cannot be bothered with politics”; in the ordinary, peaceful course of events, the majority of the population is debarred from participation in public and political life.
Choice quotes from The State and Revolution
Party on dudes, and be excellent to each other!
Whatever daddy tells it to, that dirty little book.
Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do
In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.
PRAISE "BOB"!!
"Genuine, good, and honest humanity is not defined by law, and those that blindly follow law are evil sinners, the same as those that follow God as preached by another, or that see God in the cloth or god in a badge. God is but one thing and that is the existence of all. To negate any of what God has made is to promote hell on earth and to do work for evil. To deny any of this is to have no faith. To have faith is to accept all that God has created. And when this is genuinely done, existential unease melts away and the world falls into order, and heaven on earth is manifested."
But that's not profitable....so, murder murder murder, kill kill kill. They made hell on earth out of heaven on earth.
