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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLook at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of 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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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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In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
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