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.
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.
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One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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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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The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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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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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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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