“Humanity … is never stationary. Its progressive march leads it to equality. Its regressive march goes back through every stage of privilege to human slavery, the final word of the right to property.”

—  Louis Auguste Blanqui

in "August Blanqui, Heretical Communist," Radical Philosophy 185 (2014)

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