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
crush communication views
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew.
statistics analysis synthesis
Without analysis, no synthesis.
class republic instruments
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.
war communication class
All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.
philosophical law criminals
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
social scales claims
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
class life-and-death doe
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor....
art giving-up philosophy
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
order people useless
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
struggle class development
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
reality two political
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
freedom recognition
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
law giving independence
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.