It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSPolitical 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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.
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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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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
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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 proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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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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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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