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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.

Friedrich Engels

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
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
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Material Men Money Nature Political
One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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Brain Essence Science Thinking
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
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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Individual Philosophy Willing
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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Freedom Relationship Slave
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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Air Cities Poor True Way
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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Appearance Development Nature Poltics Revolution
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 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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Circles Labour Movement Mean
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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Class Struggle World
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
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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Existence Freedom Order Speak Use
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Nomenclature Revolution Science Statistics Views
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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Class Democracy Oppression Politics Republic States
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

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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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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