"Humanity ... is never stationary. Its progressive march leads it to equality. Its regressive march goes back through every stage of privilege to human slavery, the final word of the right to property."
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in "August Blanqui, Heretical Communist," Radical Philosophy 185 (2014)
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Louis Auguste Blanqui
1805 – 1881
französischer Revolutionär und sozialistischer Theoretiker
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