Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAnd what is impossible to science?
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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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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 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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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 way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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