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Friedrich Engels
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Before all else, Marx was a revolutionist. To collaborate in one way or another in the overthrow of capitalist society
and of the State institutions created by that society; to collaborate in the freeing of the modern proletariat ...
this was his true mission in life. Fighting was his natural element. Few men ever fought with so much passion, tenacity, and success...
- Friedrich Engels
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For nearly 40 years we have raised to prominence the idea of the class struggle as the immediate driving force of history,
and particularly the class struggle between bourgeois and the proletariat as the great lever of the modern social revolution; ...
At the founding of the International, we expressly formulated the battle cry:
The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms,
we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto
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Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature.
For each such victory nature takes its revenge.
Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected,
but in the second and third places it is quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first.
- Friedrich Engels
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Revolution is necessary not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.
- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
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