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 ENGELSThe 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
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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.
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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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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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