What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIt would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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How 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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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