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Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
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.
Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.
Principles of Communism (1847)
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
The Communist Manifesto (1848)
The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class.
The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845)