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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIf 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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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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