In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLook at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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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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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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.
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Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
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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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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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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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.
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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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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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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