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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.

Friedrich Engels

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Art Give Up Philosophy
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
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Balzac History Learning Togetherness
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
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Civilization Money Morning Moving
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
And what is impossible to science?
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Impossible One Liner Science
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
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
Without analysis, no synthesis.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Analysis One Liner Science
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Development Freedom Progress
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
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Circles Labour Movement Mean
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Community Politics Thinking
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Civilization Greedy Philosophy
In 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 ENGELS

Country Nation Years

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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