We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

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There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

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Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

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Religion is the opium of the masses.

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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

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My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

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Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

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Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

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