Friedrich Engels Quotes (16 Quotes)


    Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from the first dawn to the present day...

    From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

    People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

    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 ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms of dialectical thought.


    Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

    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.

    Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.


    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 state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.


    Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

    The report of the Central Commission relates that the manufacturers began to employ children rarely of five years, often of six, very often of seven, usually of eight to nine years that the working day often lasted fourteen to sixteen hours, exclusi

    State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous and then dies of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of the processes of production. The state is not 'abolished'. It withers way.

    All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.


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