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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.

Friedrich Engels

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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Firsts Freedom Hegel Necessary States
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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Possible Social Time Woman
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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Dream End Freedom Independence Knowledge Law Possibilty
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
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Class Live Mean Order Power
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary One Liner Recognition
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Civilization Greedy Philosophy
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Development Freedom Progress
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Art Give Up Philosophy
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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History Life Men
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Irrational Process Reality Time
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
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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Apperance Natural Running
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
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
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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Talk Time Year

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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