• jaywalker [they/them, any]
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    19 days ago

    Lenin had some real good ones about freedom:

    So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

    Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

    When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.