"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
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"People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by profound revolutions and bloody struggles; they have learned that the question is not that of a fraternal union of all European peoples under a single republican flag, but of an alliance of the revolutionary peoples against the counter-revolutionary peoples, an alliance which comes into being not on paper, but only on the battlefield."
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"It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground."
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"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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"The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe."
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"Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research."
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"Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity."
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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."
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"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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"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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"It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."
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"The state is not abolished, it withers away."
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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."
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"And what is impossible to science?"
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"If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living."
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"Life is the mode of action of proteins."
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