Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAll 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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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
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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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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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 there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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