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In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from...

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Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the pr...

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The Origin of the Family

The word Familia did not originally signify the ideal of our modern philistine, which is a compound ...

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The Origin of the Family

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

State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then d...

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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

Collected Works 38 1844-51

...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of n...

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Anti-Duhring: Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science

True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his...

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which w...

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According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is...

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Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of de...

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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversa...

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All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of soc...

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Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the...

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In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social...

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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one...

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No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

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Friedrich Engels

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Born: 1820-11-28

Died: 1895-08-05

Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 – August 5, 1895) was a 19th-century German philosopher, social scientist, and journalist. He created Marxist theory together with Karl Marx. In 1845, he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester.More