All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLook at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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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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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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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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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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And what is impossible to science?
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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