“ History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. Karl Marx
“ According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life. Friedrich Engels
“ In truth, it is no more clear in our time than it was in Marx's how socialism will come about in either developed or undeveloped countries; what is clear is that for humanity to have a decent future,… Benjamin Kunkel
“ Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people César A. Hidalgo
“ ...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten finger… Friedrich Engels
“ Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him. Leon Trotsky
“ Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself. Karl Marx
“ Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization. Walter Benjamin
“ In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host o… Friedrich Engels
