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Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

Friedrich Engels

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Philosophy Rule
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.
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Agreement Civilization History
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
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
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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Class Democracy Oppression Politics Republic States
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
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Talk Time Year
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.
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Anger Ideas True War Wrath
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom Nation Oppression
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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Dream End Freedom Independence Knowledge Law Possibilty
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
Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Analysis One Liner Science
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
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
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Appearance Development Nature Poltics Revolution
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Class Organization Struggle Weapon
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.
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Class Live Mean Order Power
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Development Freedom Progress

Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

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