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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIreland 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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
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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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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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And what is impossible to science?
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