“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
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
Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to… — Friedrich Engels 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
“Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence… — 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