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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.

Friedrich Engels

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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Apperance Natural Running
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Class Organization Struggle Weapon
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.
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Agreement Civilization History
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
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Appearance Religion Victory World Years
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
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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Country Nation Years
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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Class Development History Struggle
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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Air Cities Poor True Way
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Irrational Process Reality Time
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Civilization Greedy Philosophy
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Nomenclature Revolution Science Statistics Views
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Action Life Science
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
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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Class Live Mean Order Power
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Abandonment State
Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Analysis One Liner Science

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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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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