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— Iddris Sandu

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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

— Samuel Johnson

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"At bottom Trotskyism is a metaphysic paved with good intentions.* It is based on a belief in the natural goodness of the workers, which is always perverted by evil bureaucracies but never destroyed. T…"

— Regis Debray

Philosophy1940

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