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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.

Friedrich Engels

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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Forget Goodness People Revenge
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Balzac History Learning Togetherness
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Democracy Oppression Politics Republic States
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Talk Time Year
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Circles Labour Movement Mean
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Abandonment State
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Fire Force Nature Perfection Walk
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Fear Order People Useless
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Adventure Wall Wonderful
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Development History Struggle
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Apperance Natural Running
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Live Perfection Woman Worth
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Possible Social Time Woman
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Philosophy Rule
One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Brain Essence Science Thinking
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Appearance Religion Victory World Years

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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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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