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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Friedrich Engels

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Firsts Freedom Hegel Necessary States
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
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Circles Labour Movement Mean
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Fire Force Nature Perfection Walk
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
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Live Mean Order Power
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
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Action Life Science
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
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Individual Philosophy Willing
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Association Equality Freedom Museums Spinning
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Agreement Civilization History
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
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Live Perfection Woman Worth
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Appearance Religion Victory World Years
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Organization Struggle Weapon

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