“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
“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“In nineteenth century Europe (and later in other parts of the world) the transition from a subsistence to a market economy based… — Eleanor Burke Leacock Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“The modern proletariat was not led by the social-democracy into class struggle. On the contrary, the international social-democratic movement was called into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The form of family corresponding to civilization and coming to definite supremacy with it is monogamy, the domination of the man over… — Frederick Engels Copy Share Image