“We communists know only one possession that is sacred — the life of the working man, the life of the worker, his wife and his children. That is the only possession which is sacred so far as we are concerned, and it gives us the right to do anything and everything.”
Into the Fight Against Famine
6. The Kulaks - bulwark and hope of the counter-revolution
How the Revolution Armed (1923)
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XVI. Concerning sacrifices and other worships, that we benefit man by them, but not the Gods.
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The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10
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“What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)