All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.” — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image