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1820–1895 Germany

Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 – August 5, 1895) was a 19th-century German philosopher, social scientist, and journalist. He created Marxist theory together with Karl Marx.

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The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.

Principles of Communism (1847)

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

Big industry, competition and generally the individualistic organization of production have become a fetter which it must and will shatter.

Principles of Communism (1847)

Abolish competition and replace it with association.

Principles of Communism (1847)

Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

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

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Principles of Communism (1847)

Bourgeoisie and proletariat have become the decisive classes, and the struggle between them the great struggle of the day.

Principles of Communism (1847)

Among the higher animals the herd and the family are not complementary to one another, but antagonistic.

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884)

It is a universal revolution and will, accordingly, have a universal range.

Principles of Communism (1847)

Theology must either regress to blind faith or progress towards free philosophy.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

The Communist Manifesto (1848)

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (1886)

Prostitution is based on private property and falls with it.

Principles of Communism (1847)

The state is not "abolished," it withers away.

The liberal economic system had done its best to universalise enmity, to transform mankind into a horde of ravenous beasts (for what else are competitors?).

Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1844)

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

The bourgeoisie has gained a monopoly of all means of existence in the broadest sense of the word. What the proletarian needs, he can obtain only from this bourgeoisie, which is protected in its monopoly by the power of the state. The proletarian is, therefore, in law and in fact, the slave of the bourgeoisie, which can decree his life or death.

The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845)

Industry controlled by society as a whole, and operated according to a plan, presupposes well-rounded human beings, their faculties developed in balanced fashion, able to see the system of production in its entirety.

Principles of Communism (1847)

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