I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSHow 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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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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All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.
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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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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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Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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All 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 science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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