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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIn 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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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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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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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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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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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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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 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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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