The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of production in the name of societythis is, at the same time, its last independent act… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment. — 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
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