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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAnd what is impossible to science?
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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