Karl Marx — "It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to figh…"

It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.
Karl Marx — Karl Marx Modern · Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital

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Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge, after the Prussian government dissolved the newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung.

Date: 1843

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