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 ENGELSJust as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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.
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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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