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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLife is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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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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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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