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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLook at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
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And what is impossible to science?
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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.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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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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All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.
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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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