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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.

Friedrich Engels

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Freedom Necessary One Liner Recognition
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Air Cities Poor True Way
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 ENGELS

Circles Labour Movement Mean
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
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Fear Order People Useless
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Electrical Ideas Philosophy Spark
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
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Live Perfection Woman Worth
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Crime Law Philosophy
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Talk Time Year
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Brain Discover Facts Invention
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Existence Freedom Order Speak Use
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Freedom Relationship Slave
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
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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Appearance Development Nature Poltics Revolution

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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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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