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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.

Friedrich Engels

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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Forget Goodness People Revenge
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Fear Order People Useless
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Philosophy Rule
The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.
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Circles Labour Movement Mean
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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Class History Marriage Men Oppression Sex Woman
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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Adventure Wall Wonderful
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary One Liner Recognition
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Action Life Science
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Irrational Process Reality Time
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
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Appearance Development Nature Poltics Revolution
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Development Freedom Progress
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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History Life Men
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Live Perfection Woman Worth
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Abandonment State
And what is impossible to science?
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Impossible One Liner Science
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Crime Law Philosophy

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