Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSNaturally, 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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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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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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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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