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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIf there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.
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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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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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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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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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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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Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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