In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIn a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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.
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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.
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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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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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 state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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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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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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