In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSDon’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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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
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And what is impossible to science?
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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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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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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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