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

Friedrich Engels

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Freedom Necessary One Liner Recognition
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
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Possible Social Time Woman
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Adventure Wall Wonderful
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Agreement Civilization History
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
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Association Equality Freedom Museums Spinning
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Philosophy Rule
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Anger Ideas True War Wrath
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Material Men Money Nature Political
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
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Balzac History Learning Togetherness
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

Civilization Money Morning Moving
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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Individual Philosophy Willing
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Facts Freedom Love Moments Movement Revolution
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

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