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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Friedrich Engels

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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Nation Poltics Power Reality
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
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Civilization Greedy Philosophy
One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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Brain Essence Science Thinking
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Balzac History Learning Togetherness
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
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Action Life Science
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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Appearance Development Nature Poltics Revolution
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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Dream End Freedom Independence Knowledge Law Possibilty
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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Apperance Natural Running
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Fear Order People Useless
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom Nation Oppression
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
Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Analysis One Liner Science
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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Class Struggle World
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
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Material Men Money Nature Political

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