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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLook at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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All 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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
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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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Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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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.
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