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- Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple…
- A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the…
- People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by…
- All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next world war will…
- The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
- Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the…
- Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
- The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the…
- By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right Germany…
- We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish…
- Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing…
- I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
- Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with…
- All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
- All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
- 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 of…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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