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 ENGELSLook at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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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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.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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