Friedrich Engels Quotes

True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his turn tomorrow? Who assures him employment, who vouches for it that, if for any reason or no reason...

The 'Manifesto' being our joint production, I consider myself bound to state that the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to . That proposition is: that in every historical epoch,...

No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

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.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlie...

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 m...

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

In the conditions of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped. The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in...