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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAnd what is impossible to science?
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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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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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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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 state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
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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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