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The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding genera...more

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Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe....more

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As individuals express their life, so they are.

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Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudali...more

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History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

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Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

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Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be me...more

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Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstanc...more

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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

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...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete...more

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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster a...more