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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Friedrich Engels

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Live Perfection Woman Worth
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Existence Freedom Order Speak Use
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Live Mean Order Power
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Irrational Process Reality Time
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Dream End Freedom Independence Knowledge Law Possibilty
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Art Give Up Philosophy
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Democracy Oppression Politics Republic States
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Freedom Relationship Slave
If 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 ENGELS

History Life Men
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Appearance Development Nature Poltics Revolution
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Fire Force Nature Perfection Walk
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Adventure Wall Wonderful
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Agreement Civilization History
Ireland 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 ENGELS

Class Struggle World
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Appearance Religion Victory World Years

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