Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSWhat each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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And what is impossible to science?
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Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.
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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
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Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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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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