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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIt would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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 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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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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