...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nat…

Karl Marx
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...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror. ✨ Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). Karl Marx: Selected Writings, p.298, Oxford University Press, USA
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