In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSHow 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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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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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
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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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The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.
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