All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAll that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
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Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world. The Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
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Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
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One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.
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