“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.” IfsDoeForceWalksFireMaterialsWorkersCardsFryingFrying Pans Author:Friedrich Engels
“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.” IfsMenDoeProcessObjectsCircumstancesCamerasHistoricalAriseIdeologyPhenomenonUpside DownInversionsCamera Obscura Book:The German Ideology Source: The German Ideology
“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.” GivingDoeEndsLawNaturalPossibilityIndependenceDefiniteNatural Law Author:Friedrich Engels
“What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor.” KindDoeExistenceClassConditionsDependsDemandDrawsLaborProfitDoctrineCommunismLiberationLife And DeathSoleWoeProletariat Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
“One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?” DoeScienceBrainOne DayEssenceChemicals Book:Dialektik der Natur Source: Dialektik der Natur