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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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Crime Law Philosophy
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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Class Development History Struggle
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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Freedom Relationship Slave
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Irrational Process Reality Time
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Abandonment State
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
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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Facts Freedom Love Moments Movement Revolution
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
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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Firsts Freedom Hegel Necessary States
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.
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Adventure Wall Wonderful
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.
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Community Politics Thinking
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom Nation Oppression
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
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
Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Analysis One Liner Science
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Fear Order People Useless

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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