Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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And what is impossible to science?
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.
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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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