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
individual
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
views statistics revolution
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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.
running russia natural
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
sex men class
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
political expansion appearance
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
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.