I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSNo nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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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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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
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The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
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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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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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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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 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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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