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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIt would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
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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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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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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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