“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.