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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe 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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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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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.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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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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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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