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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.

Friedrich Engels

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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Class Democracy Oppression Politics Republic States
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.
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Appearance Religion Victory World Years
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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Class Development History Struggle
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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Forget Goodness People Revenge
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom Nation Oppression
Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Analysis One Liner Science
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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Freedom Relationship Slave
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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Individual Philosophy Willing
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Development Freedom Progress
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
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Talk Time Year
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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Dream End Freedom Independence Knowledge Law Possibilty
And what is impossible to science?
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Impossible One Liner Science
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Abandonment State
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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Anger Ideas True War Wrath
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Class Organization Struggle Weapon
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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Community Politics Thinking

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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