All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development |
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. |
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. |
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. |
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence |
Freedom is the recognition of necessity. |
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. |
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste |
Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist |
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. |
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. |
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. |
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal |
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. |
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. |