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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIt is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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 free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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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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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 way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
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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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