--- title: "7 Friedrich Engels Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Friedrich Engels quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Friedrich Engels sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b3/jos-antonio-rivera-175588_class-struggle_the-class-struggle-had-a-just-motive-and_112711.jpg" --- > [“The class struggle had a just motive, and Socialism at the beginning was in the right. What has happened is that instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jos-antonio-rivera/the-class-struggle-had-a-just-motive-and-socialism-at-the-beginning/) [José Antonio Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jos-antonio-rivera/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b3/jos-antonio-rivera-175588_class-struggle_the-class-struggle-had-a-just-motive-and_112711.jpg) > [“Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-asmus/karl-marx-and-friedrich-engels-said-the-theory-of-the-communists-may/) [Barry Asmus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-asmus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56c/barry-asmus-35521_private-property_karl-marx-and-friedrich-engels-said-the_882154.jpg) > [“Without the Ermen & Engels mill in Salford, owned by Friedrich Engels’s textile-manufacturing father, the chronically impoverished Marx might well have not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-eagleton/without-the-ermen-engels-mill-in-salford-owned-by-friedrich-engels-s/) [Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-eagleton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdf/terry-eagleton-1660_friedrich-engels_without-the-ermen-engels-mill-in-salford_903330.png) > [“Those who have been forced to study 'dialectical materialism', the strange concoction that was supposed to form the philosophical foundation of Marxism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-v-koonin/those-who-have-been-forced-to-study-dialectical-materialism-the/) [Eugene V. Koonin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-v-koonin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/eugene-v-koonin-168395_dialectical-material_those-who-have-been-forced-to-study-dial_1266084.jpg) > [Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosa-luxemburg/friedrich-engels-once-said-bourgeois-society-stands-at-the-crossroads/) [Rosa Luxemburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosa-luxemburg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/406/rosa-luxemburg-8744_annihilation_friedrich-engels-once-said-bourgeois-soc_2280318.jpg) > [“The transformation of the community into an administrative state responsible for total social welfare leads to a paternal totality without a house-father…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-schmitt/the-transformation-of-the-community-into-an-administrative-state/) [Carl Schmitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-schmitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/carl-schmitt-23850_change_the-transformation-of-the-community-into_2803917.jpg) > [“1849 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels present, The Communist Manifesto, declaring “the abolition of private property.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-sussman/1849-karl-marx-and-friedrich-engels-present-the-communist-manifesto/) [Brian Sussman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-sussman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/brian-sussman-224634_communist-manifesto_1849-karl-marx-and-friedrich-engels-pres_3055558.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friedrich-engels/#itemlist", "name": "Friedrich Engels Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The class struggle had a just motive, and Socialism at the beginning was in the right. What has happened is that instead of pursuing its original path of seeking after social justice among men. Socialism has turned into a mere doctrine, and one of the chilliest frigidity, and it has no concern, great or small, for the liberation of working men. Karl Marx was a German Jew who sat in his study and watched, with horrible impassivity, the most dramatic happenings of his age. 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