Humanity is for the birds

 The writer Bertolt Brecht criticised the historical mission of the working class through the character Kalle in the play Talk of Refugees: 

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• " I always objected against the mission, instinctively so to speak. It sounds flattering, but the flatterers I always distrust, don’t you? […] They imagine an ideal state and we ought to establish it. We are the operators, they remain the leaders, eh? We shall save humanity -  but who is that?”
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• (Bertolt Brecht, Flüchtlingsgespräche. Frankfurt a. M. 2000, pp. 61f., our translation)