All History Has Been A History Of

People Have Learned By Bitter Experience That The "european Fraternal Union Of Peoples" Cannot Be Achieved By Mere Phrases And Pious Wishes, But Only By Profound Revolutions And Bloody Struggles; They Have Learned That The Question Is Not That Of A Fraternal Union Of All European Peoples Under A Single Republican Flag, But Of An Alliance Of The Revolutionary Peoples Against The Counter-revolutionary Peoples, An Alliance Which Comes Into Being Not On Paper, But Only On The Battlefield.

But The Most Horrible Spot .... Lies....immediately South West Of Oxford Road And Is Known As Little Ireland. The Race That Lives In These Ruinous Cottages, Behind Broken Windows, Mended With Oilskin, Sprung Doors, And Rotten Door-posts, Or In Dark, Wet Cellars, In Measureless Filth And Stench....must Surely Have Reached The Lowest Stage Of Humanity.

The State Is Nothing But An Instrument Of Opression Of One Class By Another - No Less So In A Democratic Republic Than In A Monarchy.

By The Same Right Under Which France Took Flanders, Lorraine And Alsace, And Will Sooner Or Later Take Belgium — By That Same Right Germany Takes Over Schleswig; It Is The Right Of Civilisation As Against Barbarism, Of Progress As Against Stability.

Firstly, The Farmers, The Most Stupid Set Of People In Existence, Who, Clinging To Feudal Prejudices, Burst Forth In Masses, Ready To Die Rather Than Cease To Obey Those Whom They, Their Fathers And Grandfathers, Had Called Their Masters; And Submitted To Be Trampled On And Horse-whipped By.