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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAnd what is impossible to science?
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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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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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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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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