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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSEverything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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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 first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
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