Just As Marx Used To

People Think They Have Taken Quite An Extraordinarily Bold Step Forward When They Have Rid Themselves Of Belief In Hereditary Monarchy And Swear By The Democratic Republic. In Reality, However, The State Is Nothing But A Machine For The Oppression Of One Class By Another, And Indeed In The Democratic Republic No Less Than In The Monarchy.

The Free Development Of Each Is The Condition For The Free Development Of All.

By The Same Right Under Which France Took Flanders, Lorraine And Alsace, And Will Sooner Or Later Take Belgium — By That Same Right Germany Takes Over Schleswig; It Is The Right Of Civilisation As Against Barbarism, Of Progress As Against Stability.

Only Sound Common Sense, Respectable Fellow That He Is, In The Homely Realm Of His Own Four Walls, Has Very Wonderful Adventures Directly He Ventures Out Into The Wide World Of Research.

Freedom Does Not Consist In Any Dreamt-of Independence From Natural Laws, But In The Knowledge Of These Laws, And In The Possibility This Gives Of Systematically Making Them Work Towards Definite Ends.