Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engelswas a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman. He founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 November 1820
CityWuppertal, Germany
CountryGermany
lying dark cities
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.
years victory three
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.
men political next
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.
revenge people use
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.
philosophical civilization greed
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
views statistics revolution
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
fire doe frying-pans
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.
real process irrational
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
ideas sparks electrical
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
garden hands agriculture
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.
individual
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
art simple law
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.
order use speak
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.
nations ifs
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.