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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Friedrich Engels

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Fear Order People Useless
How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
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Community Politics Thinking
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Action Life Science
And what is impossible to science?
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Impossible One Liner Science
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Balzac History Learning Togetherness
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Class Organization Struggle Weapon
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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Dream End Freedom Independence Knowledge Law Possibilty
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Crime Law Philosophy
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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Class Live Mean Order Power
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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Apperance Natural Running
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom Nation Oppression
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
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Nation Poltics Power Reality
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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Freedom Relationship Slave
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
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Association Equality Freedom Museums Spinning
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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Agreement Civilization History
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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Class Struggle World
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Irrational Process Reality Time
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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History Life Men
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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Brain Essence Science Thinking
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
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Civilization Money Morning Moving
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Nomenclature Revolution Science Statistics Views
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary One Liner Recognition
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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Class History Marriage Men Oppression Sex Woman
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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Anger Ideas True War Wrath
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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Forget Goodness People Revenge
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Art Give Up Philosophy

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