Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe 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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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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One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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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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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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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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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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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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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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.
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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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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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