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 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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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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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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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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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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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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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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