Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) quotes

 

• All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
• 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.
• Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
• Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
• The state is not abolished, it withers away.
• 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.

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