People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression… — 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 than in a monarchy. — 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
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
“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
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
“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
...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
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
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
“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
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
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
