If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSFreedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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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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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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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
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And what is impossible to science?
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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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The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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