Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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And what is impossible to science?
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Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of 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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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 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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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