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Friedrich Engels Quotes: The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
         

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.


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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.



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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.



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