In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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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.
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The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
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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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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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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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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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.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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.
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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.
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