The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
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Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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 a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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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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