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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Friedrich Engels

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.
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Appearance Religion Victory World Years
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
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Class History Marriage Men Oppression Sex Woman
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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Possible Social Time Woman
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary One Liner Recognition
And what is impossible to science?
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Impossible One Liner Science
Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Analysis One Liner Science
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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Class Democracy Oppression Politics Republic States
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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Air Cities Poor True Way
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
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Appearance Development Nature Poltics Revolution
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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Country Nation Years
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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Individual Philosophy Willing
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Art Give Up Philosophy
How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
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Community Politics Thinking
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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Talk Time Year
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
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Freedom Relationship Slave
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Development Freedom Progress

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