In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSBare-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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
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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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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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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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