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What Do You Want With These Special Jewish Pains? I Feel As Close To The Wretched Victims Of The Rubber Plantations In Putamayo And The Blacks Of Africa With Whose Bodies The Europeans Play Ball… I Have No Special Corner In My Heart For The Ghetto: I Am At Home In The Entire World, Where There Are Clouds And Birds And Human Tears.

We Stand Todaybefore The Awful Proposition: Either The Triumph Of Imperialism And The Destruction Of All Culture, And, As In Ancient Rome, Depopulation, Desolation, Degeneration, A Vast Cemetery; Or, The Victory Of Socialism.

Revolutionary Tactics Cannot Be Invented By Leaders; They Must Develop Spontaneously-history Comes First, Leaders' Consciousness Second.

[geology] Opens Up Such Wide Intellectual Vistas And Supplies A More Perfectly Unified And More Comprehensive Conception Of Nature Than Any Other Science.

Capitalism, As A Result Of Its Own Inner Contradictions, Moves Toward A Point When It Will Be Unbalanced, When It Will Simply Become Impossible.