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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?

Friedrich Engels

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
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
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Live Perfection Woman Worth
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
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Abandonment State
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Civilization Greedy Philosophy
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Development Freedom Progress
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary One Liner Recognition
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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Class Democracy Oppression Politics Republic States
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Irrational Process Reality Time
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
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
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
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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Facts Freedom Love Moments Movement Revolution
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Action Life Science
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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Appearance Religion Victory World Years

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