"No more individual property in land: the land belongs to no one. We de­mand...the communal enjoyment of the fruits of the earth, fruits which are for every­one!... Let disappear. once and for all, the revolting distinction of rich and poor, of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed!"

(Sylvain Marechal: "Manifesto of the Equals" 1796)

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