The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSEverything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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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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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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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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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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And what is impossible to science?
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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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