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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.

Friedrich Engels

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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Class Development History Struggle
And what is impossible to science?
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Impossible One Liner Science
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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Facts Freedom Love Moments Movement Revolution
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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Civilization Money Morning Moving
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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Apperance Natural Running
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
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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Adventure Wall Wonderful
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Action Life Science
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.
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Nation Poltics Power Reality
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Live Perfection Woman Worth
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Philosophy Rule
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
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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Anger Ideas True War Wrath
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Class Organization Struggle Weapon
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Balzac History Learning Togetherness
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 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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