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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSTerror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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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 that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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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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