Without analysis, no synthesis.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSWithout analysis, no synthesis.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAll that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSFreedom is the recognition of necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSOne day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe 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.
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSBy 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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAnd what is impossible to science?
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIf in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLook at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIn 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.
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIreland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world. The Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIt is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe 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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS