Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAll history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.
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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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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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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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