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We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.

Nikolai Bukharin
People, Enemy, Opponents
"Programme of the World Revolution". Book by Nikolai Bukharin. Chapter VII: "Freedom for the Working Class and the poorest Elements of the Peasantry; Restrictions for the Bourgeoisie", www.marxists.org. 1918.
We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely