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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (/ˈɛŋɡəlz/, /ˈɛŋəlz/; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɛŋəls], sometimes anglicised Frederick Engels; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of a large textile factory at Manchester, England.

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The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

Museums, Association, Spinning, Belong, Whole, Wheel

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

Mostly, Order, People, Useless

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.

Class, History, Men, Opposition, Sex

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.

Arises, Cameras, Circumstances, Historical, Men, Obscura

Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world. . . the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.

Aspirations, Class, Europe, Mixed, Struggle

We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish Jews as well, although this dirtiest of all races, neither by its jargon nor by its descent, but at most only through its lust for profit, could have any relation of kinship with Frankfurt.

Although, Connections, Lust, Parliamentary, Race, Simpletons

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.

Air, Cities, Scandalous, Society, Treated, Way

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Freedom, Necessity, Recognition

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.

Class, Life And Death, Doe, Liberation, Death

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.

Advertising, Country, Farmers, Half, Hotels, Years

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.

Abolishes, Becomes, Private, Property, Relation, Slavery

But the most horrible spot. . . . lies. . . . immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench. . . . must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity.

Cities, Dark, Ireland, Lives, Lying, West

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Life, Science, Action, Proteins, Mode

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Abolished, Away, State, States, Withers

The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.

Expedient, Labour Movement, Mean, Working, Years

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.

Political, Reality, Servants, State, Take, Two

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

Class, Organization, Struggle, Trade, Unions, Weapon

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

Frenchwomen, Ifs, Life, Perfect Woman, Worth, Worth Living

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.

Becomes, Ceases, Exist, Order, Speak, Use

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

Struggle, Class, Development, Various, Dominated, Struggles

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