No Nation Can Be Free If It

But The Most Horrible Spot .... Lies....immediately South West Of Oxford Road And Is Known As Little Ireland. The Race That Lives In These Ruinous Cottages, Behind Broken Windows, Mended With Oilskin, Sprung Doors, And Rotten Door-posts, Or In Dark, Wet Cellars, In Measureless Filth And Stench....must Surely Have Reached The Lowest Stage Of Humanity.

Competition Permits The Capitalist To Deduct From The Price Of Labour Power That Which The Family Earns From Its Own Little Garden Or Field; The Workers Are Compelled To Accept Any Piece Wages Offered To Them, Because Otherwise They Would Get Nothing At All, And They Could Not Live From The Products Of Their Small-scale Agriculture Alone, And Because, On The Other Hand, It Is Just This Agriculture And Landownership Which Chains Them To The Spot And Prevents Them From Looking Around For Other Employment.

No Nation Can Be Free If It Oppresses Other Nations.

All That Is Real In Human History Becomes Irrational In The Process Of Time.

Three Hundred Years After Its Appearance Christianity Was The Recognized State Religion In The Roman World Empire, And In Barely Sixty Years Socialism Has Won Itself A Position Which Makes Its Victory Absolutely Certain.