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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLabour 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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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Political 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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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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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