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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.

Friedrich Engels

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Individual Philosophy Willing
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary One Liner Recognition
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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Existence Freedom Order Speak Use
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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Association Equality Freedom Museums Spinning
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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Brain Discover Facts Invention
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Live Perfection Woman Worth
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Action Life Science
In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
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Country Nation Years
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Civilization Greedy Philosophy
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom Nation Oppression
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
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
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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Civilization Money Morning Moving
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
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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Agreement Civilization History
How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
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Community Politics Thinking

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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