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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.

Friedrich Engels

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Irrational Process Reality Time
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
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
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary One Liner Recognition
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
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
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.
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Fire Force Nature Perfection Walk
Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Analysis One Liner Science
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Civilization Greedy Philosophy
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
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
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
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
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.
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Association Equality Freedom Museums Spinning
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
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Brain Discover Facts Invention
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Philosophy Rule

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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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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