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"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
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"We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself."
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."
"It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video."
"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
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"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence."
"All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development."
"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 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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