What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSWithout analysis, no synthesis.
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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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