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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

Friedrich Engels

One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Brain Essence Science Thinking
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Live Mean Order Power
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Nomenclature Revolution Science Statistics Views
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Philosophy Rule
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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Circles Labour Movement Mean
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Fire Force Nature Perfection Walk
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Nation Poltics Power Reality
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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Facts Freedom Love Moments Movement Revolution
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Existence Freedom Order Speak Use
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Air Cities Poor True Way
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Fear Order People Useless
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 ENGELS

History Life Men
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Firsts Freedom Hegel Necessary States
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Freedom Relationship Slave
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Community Politics Thinking
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark

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