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Communism and Capitalism are the Same Thing: A Story
The Philosopher Between the Capitalist and the Communist
By Punkerslut
Image: By margaretkilljoy, CC BY-NC License
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"...the idea underlying Fascism is irreconcilably different from that which underlies Socialism. Socialism aims, ultimately, at a world-state of free and equal human beings. It takes the equality of human rights for granted. Nazism assumes just the opposite."
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--George Orwell, 1941
"The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius," Part II, Section I
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"You don't know your testament when you see it."
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--Henry David Thoreau, 1860
"A Plea for Capt. John Brown"
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"Where right and liberty are everything, disadvantages count for nothing."
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--Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1762
"The Social Contract, or the Principles of Right," Book 3, Chapter 15
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"In France we have to have traitors. It is impossible to admit that we should be beaten without someone's treachery."
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--Unknown, ~1871, Paris,
Quoted from "the Fall of Paris," by Alistair Horne, Chapter 7
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"And what would his people back home want if they ever learned just how far from them he'd really gone? He broke from them, and then he broke from himself. I'd never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart."
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--Captain Benjamin L. Willard, 1985
Apocalypse Now
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"The night was disturbed... the enthusiasm, the confidence of the preceeding day were as though carried away by darkness. In the morning faces were gloomy, they exchanged sad glances, there were long, discouraged silences. Frightening rumours spread, the bad news which the leaders had succeeded in hiding the previous day circulated without anyone speaking, propelled by the invisible mouth which throws the breath of panic into crowds. They realized that they alone had risen, that they would become rebels; chased with guns like wild beasts. They had dreamed of a great war, the revolt of a people, the glorious conquest of their rights. Then, in confusion, without restraint, this handful of men cried, its faith dead, its dream of justice vanished...."
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--Émile Zola, 1868
Paris en decémbre: Etude historique sur le Coup d`État Paris, Ténot
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"...there is no room for philosophy in the courts of princes."
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--Thomas More, 1516
"Utopia," Book 1
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"The citizen-soldiers of the guerrilla army had, in fact, lived lives in which the roles of peasant, worker, soldier, and intellectual intermingled to the point of fusion."
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--Eric Wolf, 1969
"Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century," Chapter 7
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Part VIII : The Dissidents
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"War. War never changes... The end of the world occurred pretty much as we had predicted. Too many humans, not enough space or resources to go around. The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones."
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--Ron Perlman, 1998
Fallout 2
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"The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to be erased from the breast of man..."
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--Thomas Malthus, 1798
"An Essay on the Principle of Population," Book 4
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