From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIn a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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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.
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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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.
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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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