In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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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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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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