The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSFreedom is the recognition of necessity.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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And what is impossible to science?
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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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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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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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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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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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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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