From The First Day To This, Sheer

I Have Learned More [from Balzac] Than From All The Professional Historians, Economists, And Statisticians Put Together.

We Find Two Great Gangs Of Political Speculators, Who Alternately Take Possession Of The State Power And Exploit It By The Most Corrupt Ends -- The Nation Is Powerless Against These Two Great Cartels Of Politicians Who Are Ostensibly Its Servants, But In Reality Dominate And Plunder It.

The Proletarians, Driven To Despair, Will Seize The Torch Which Stephens Has Preached To Them; The Vengeance Of The People Will Come Down With A Wrath Of Which The Rage Of 1795 Gives No True Idea. The War Of The Poor Against The Rich Will Be The Bloodiest Ever Waged.

The State Is Not Abolished, It Withers Away.

Just As Marx Used To Say About The French Marxists Of The Late 'seventies: All I Know Is That I Am Not A Marxist.