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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIt would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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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.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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 proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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