What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe 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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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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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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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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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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