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• If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

  Friedrich Engels

  Perfect Woman, Worth Living, Ifs

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

  Friedrich Engels

  Used, Marxist, Late

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratskiĭ (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895”

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• 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.

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  Mean, Independent, Government

  Friedrich Engels (2008). “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Moving, Civilization, Dawn

  Friedrich Engels (1902). “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”

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• But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench....must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity.

  Friedrich Engels

  Lying, Dark, Race

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• It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

  Friedrich Engels

  Brain, Facts, Discovering

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “On Religion”, p.267, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Labour Movement, Circles

  1878 Letter to Eduard Bernstein, 17 Jul.

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• And what is impossible to science?

  Friedrich Engels

  Science, Impossible, Accounts

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2009). “The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto”, p.198, Prometheus Books

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• 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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Agreement, Civilization, Historical

  "Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works".

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• It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

  Friedrich Engels

  Running, Russia, Natural

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1952). “The Russian menace to Europe: a collection of articles, speeches, letters, and news dispatches, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels”

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• 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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Men, Historical, Cameras

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.47, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• 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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Thinking, Community, Political

  Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (2004). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• 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.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Europe, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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