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 ENGELSThe 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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Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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