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"Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions."
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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
"By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week."
"To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased."
"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random."
"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."
"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
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"The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary."
"Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue."
"To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state."
"The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world."
"Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire."
"This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat."
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