Frederick Engels
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 Frederick Engels     | |
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| Born | 28 November 1820 Barmen, Prussia |
| Died | 1895-08-05 London, England |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin |
Quotes by Frederick Engels
| Page | Quote | Source |
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| Friedrich Engels | “By dissolving nationalities, the liberal economic system had done its best to universalise enmity, to transform mankind into a horde of ravenous beasts (for what else are competitors?) who devour one another just because each has identical interests with all the others – after this preparatory work there remained but one step to take before the goal was reached, the dissolution of the family. To accomplish this, economy’s own beautiful invention, the factory system, came to its aid.” | Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1844) |
| Friedrich Engels | “Everywhere the proletariat develops in step with the bourgeoisie. In proportion, as the bourgeoisie grows in wealth, the proletariat grows in numbers.” | Principles of Communism (1847) |
| Friedrich Engels | “The bourgeoisie has gained a monopoly of all means of existence in the broadest sense of the word. What the proletarian needs, he can obtain only from this bourgeoisie, which is protected in its monopoly by the power of the state. The proletarian is, therefore, in law and in fact, the slave of the bourgeoisie, which can decree his life or death.” | The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (page 112) |
| Friedrich Engels | “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 [...] until such time as a new generation, reared in new and free social conditions, will be able to throw the entire lumber of the state on the scrap-heap.” | |
| Friedrich Engels | “You have destroyed the small monopolies so that the one great basic monopoly, property, may function the more freely and unrestrictedly. You have civilised the ends of the earth to win new terrain for the deployment of your vile avarice. You have brought about the fraternisation of the peoples – but the fraternity is the fraternity of thieves.” | Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1844) |
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