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Anna Karenina

Chapter 25

‘So you see,’ pursued Nikolay Levin, painfully
wrinkling his forehead and twitching.
It was obviously difficult for him to think of what to
say and do.
‘Here, do you see?’... He pointed to some sort of iron
bars, fastened together with strings, lying in a corner of the
room. ‘Do you see that? That’s the beginning of a new
thing we’re going into. It’s a productive association..’
Konstantin scarcely heard him. He looked into his
sickly, consumptive face, and he was more and more sorry
for him, and he could not force himself to listen to what
his brother was telling him about the association. He saw
that this association was a mere anchor to save him from
self-contempt. Nikolay Levin went on talking:
‘You know that capital oppresses the laborer. The
laborers with us, the peasants, bear all the burden of labor,
and are so placed that however much they work they can’t
escape from their position of beasts of burden. All the
profits of labor, on which they might improve their
position, and gain leisure for themselves, and after that
education, all the surplus values are taken from them by

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