A specter is haunting Europe–the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact. I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power. I I. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Specter of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself. .Karl Marx
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My father has a habit of quoting and making up words and phrases to make them sound smart and witty. For example: My father: I’m going to make it my business to see that they don’t take us for granted. Me: So now we’re going to be the “They”? My dad: You can keep it. I don’t want it.
Source: The Communist Manifesto
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