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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Friedrich Engels

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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Forget Goodness People Revenge
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Appearance Development Nature Poltics Revolution
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Irrational Process Reality Time
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

History Life Men
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Civilization Greedy Philosophy
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Nation Poltics Power Reality
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Adventure Wall Wonderful
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Talk Time Year
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Organization Struggle Weapon
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Democracy Oppression Politics Republic States
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Crime Law Philosophy
Without analysis, no synthesis.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Analysis One Liner Science
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Possible Social Time Woman
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Balzac History Learning Togetherness
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Live Perfection Woman Worth
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Development Freedom Progress

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