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
Friedrich Engels quotes about
nations ifs
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
philosophical civilization greed
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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.
running russia natural
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
philosophical paris looks
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
museums association spinning
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.
perfect-woman ifs worth-living
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
together balzac i-have-learned
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
development communist-manifesto proletariat
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
taken reality thinking
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, 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.
communication party mean
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon - authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire...
wall adventure common-sense
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.
used marxist late
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
slavery relation private-property
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.