Friedrich Engels Quotes

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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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Class, Development

  "The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document".

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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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Class, Republic, States

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• No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

  Friedrich Engels

  Nations, Ifs

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1967). “On Scientific Communism”, Moscow : Progress

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• Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

  Friedrich Engels

  Freedom, Recognition

  Friedrich Engels (2009). “Landmarks of Scientific Socialism: Anti-Duehring”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Without analysis, no synthesis.

  Friedrich Engels

  Science, Analysis, Synthesis

  Friedrich Engels (1935). “Herr Eugen Dühring's revolution in science [anti-Dühring]”

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• What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor.

  Friedrich Engels

  Class, Life And Death, Doe

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.128, Haymarket Books

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• Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

  Friedrich Engels

  Order, People, Useless

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Law, Giving, Independence

  "Anti-Dühring". Book by Frederick Engels, Part I, Chapter XI: "Morality and Law", www.marxists.org. 1877.

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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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Reality, Two, Political

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

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• In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Class, Organization

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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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Social, Claims, Scales

  Friedrich Engels (1942). “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lews H. Morgan”

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• Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

  Friedrich Engels

  Ideas, Sparks, Electrical

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• Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

  Friedrich Engels

  Philosophical, Law, Criminals

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• From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

  Friedrich Engels

  Philosophical, Civilization, Greed

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics

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• Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

  Friedrich Engels

  Art, Giving Up, Philosophy

  Friedrich Engels (2008). “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Order, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2014). “The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc.

  Friedrich Engels

  Art, Simple, Law

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• All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

  Friedrich Engels

  Real, Process, Irrational

  Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (1941). “Ludwig Feuerbach & the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy”, p.11, International Publishers Co

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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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Revenge, People, Use

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• The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

  Friedrich Engels

  Development, Communist Manifesto, Proletariat

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.88, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

  Friedrich Engels

  Movement, Facts, Free Love

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “On Religion”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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• Life is the mode of action of proteins.

  Friedrich Engels

  Life, Science, Action

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• ...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew.

  Friedrich Engels

  Crush, Communication, Views

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratskiĭ (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895”

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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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Sex, Men, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.184, Haymarket Books

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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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Fire, Doe, Frying Pans

  The Condition of theWorking Class in England in 1844 ch. 7 (1892)

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