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 ENGELSIn a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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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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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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Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
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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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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.
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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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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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.
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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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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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