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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLook at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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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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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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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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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Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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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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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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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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