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" Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. "

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" In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. "

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" Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. "

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