> During the
> lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly
> hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the
> most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and
> slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into
> harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names
> to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and
> with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing
> the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary
> edge and vulgarizing it.
>
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"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
lytlað."