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Without analysis, no synthesis.
And what is impossible to science?
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
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 class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
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.
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 proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
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 wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially - hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
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 of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.