It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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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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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.
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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 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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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