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. Friedrich Engels More Quotes by Friedrich Engels More Quotes From Friedrich Engels Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks. Friedrich Engels electrical sparks ideas 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 fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc. Friedrich Engels simple law art The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. Friedrich Engels proletariat communist-manifesto 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. Friedrich Engels revenge use people 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 result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward. Friedrich Engels communication class war All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. Friedrich Engels irrational real process 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. Friedrich Engels cities air way 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. Friedrich Engels speak use order 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 workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment. Friedrich Engels agriculture garden hands 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. Friedrich Engels half country years I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. Friedrich Engels balzac i-have-learned together What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed. Friedrich Engels individual 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. Friedrich Engels class men sex One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought? Friedrich Engels essence brain science 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. Friedrich Engels connections race lust The state is not abolished, it withers away. Friedrich Engels states 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. Friedrich Engels victory world years Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself. Friedrich Engels next political men In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature. Friedrich Engels nomenclature statistics views It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground. Friedrich Engels free-love movement facts
