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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.

Friedrich Engels

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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Development History Struggle
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Balzac History Learning Togetherness
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Philosophy Rule
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
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
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Live Perfection Woman Worth
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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Air Cities Poor True Way
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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History Life Men
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world. The Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
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Class Struggle World
And what is impossible to science?
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Impossible One Liner Science
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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Forget Goodness People Revenge
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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Class History Marriage Men Oppression Sex Woman
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Abandonment State
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
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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Brain Discover Facts Invention
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom Nation Oppression

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