“Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.”

— Sergey Nechayev, book Catechism of a Revolutionary

Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869)
Context: The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.

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