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
among ancient essential forms greek intellect
The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms of dialectical thought.
began central children commission eight employ five fourteen lasted nine rarely relates report sixteen
The report of the Central Commission relates that the manufacturers began to employ children rarely of five years, often of six, very often of seven, usually of eight to nine years; that the working day often lasted fourteen to sixteen hours, exclusi
conduct dies domain government persons processes relations replaced social state withers
State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous and then dies of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of the processes of production. The state is not 'abolished'. It withers way.
art concealed darwin discovered hitherto human law mankind marx nature organic pursue science shelter simple
Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.
freedom recognition
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
order people useless
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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....
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.
statistics analysis synthesis
Without analysis, no synthesis.
ideas sparks electrical
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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.
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.