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“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.”

Quote by Friedrich Engels

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

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The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

This book is a comprehensive analysis of 'The Communist Manifesto,' a seminal work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It delves into the principles of communism, the class struggle, and the historical context in which the document was written. The book serves as an in-depth exploration of the ideas that have shaped modern political thought and movements. more

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, politician, economist, and revolutionary, co-founder of communist theory with Karl Marx. He was born on November 28, 1820, and died on August 5, 1895. more

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Book:Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Source: Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

“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.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“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.”

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Author:Friedrich Engels

“Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.”

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Author:Friedrich Engels

“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.”

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Author:Friedrich Engels

“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 Jews as well, although this dirtiest of all races, neither by its jargon nor by its descent, but at most only through its lust for profit, could have any relation of kinship with Frankfurt.”

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Author:Friedrich Engels

“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 outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.”

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Book:German socialist philosophy

Source: German socialist philosophy

“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 as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not abolished. It dies out.”

Source: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

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Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

“We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.”

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Book:Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta