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18, 1800).] [Footnote 5117: What impression could this have made on Lenin? Could he not have felt: "Perhaps Napoleon's logic was good at that time but now with electricity, the steam engine and modern industrialism it will be possible to do without the efficiency of capitalism and hence with its inequalities and egoism? If so then we can recreate the equality dreamt of by Babeuf, Robespierre, Saint Just and the other ancient revolutionaries!!"] [Footnote 5118: Ref.: "Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will either be extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, and despotism will come from either of these excesses." Aristotle.
(SR.)] [Footnote 5119: Pelet de la Lozere, p.
205 (February 11, 1804).] [Footnote 5120: Ibid., p.
201.] [Footnote 5121: Pelet de la Lozere, p.
206, (Feb.
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