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Firsts Quotes by Friedrich Engels
- 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…
- ...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,…
- From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
- 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…
- The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first…
- 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 time…
- How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction…
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