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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by emizeko@hexbear.net to c/copypasta@hexbear.net

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gonna be posting a bunch of quotes in this thread that I want to preserve. you are welcome to post critiques of a given pasta, just remember I don't 100% agree with all of these (only most) but consider them information worth saving. proposed edits will be considered

CONTENT WARNING: there's going to be mentions of imperial atrocities in here, including SA and torture.

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

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directed against John Stuart Mill, the English philosopher and social reformer, in Das Kapital, Vol. 1, Chap. 16 (1867), after having demolished one of Mill's arguments