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 ENGELSSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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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 free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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