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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitud

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cubas political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest. – Fidel Castro

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What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings. – Ebenezer Elliot

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Youll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law. – Desiderius Erasmus

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The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of ones personal integrity. – Milovan Djilas

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