In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIt is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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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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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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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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