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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Dictatorship
Paris
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
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History
Development
Class
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Existence
Judgment
Reason
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Civilization
Day
Driving
First
Greed
Spirit
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Crime
Laws
State
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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Freedom
Order
State
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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State
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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Class
Nothing
State
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Freedom
Necessity