The First Class Opposition That Appears In

Freedom Does Not Consist In Any Dreamt-of Independence From Natural Laws, But In The Knowledge Of These Laws, And In The Possibility This Gives Of Systematically Making Them Work Towards Definite Ends.

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.

The Way In Which The Vast Mass Of The Poor Are Treated By Modern Society Is Truly Scandalous. They Are Herded Into Great Cities Where They Breathe A Fouler Air Than In The Countryside Which They Have Left.

If In All Ideology Men And Their Circumstances Appear Upside-down As In A Camera Obscura, This Phenomenon Arises Just As Much From Their Historical Life-process As The Inversion Of Objects On The Retina Does From The Physical Life-process.

It Is A Curious Fact That With Every Great Revolutionary Movement The Question Of 'free Love' Comes Into The Foreground.