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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSEverything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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