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The Principles of Communism Quotes
The Principles of Communism
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Friedrich Engels5,485 ratings, 4.10 average rating, 685 reviews
The Principles of Communism Quotes
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“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.”
― The Principles of Communism
― The Principles of Communism
“The individual slave, property of one master, is assured an existence, however miserable it may be, because of the master’s interest. The individual proletarian, property as it were of the entire bourgeois class which buys his labor only when someone has need of it, has no secure existence. This existence is assured only to the class as a whole.”
― The Principles of Communism
― The Principles of Communism
“the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.”
― The Principles of Communism
― The Principles of Communism
“Q:What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities?
A:The nationalities of the peoples associating themselves in accordance with the principle of community will be compelled to mingle with each other as a result of this association and thereby to dissolve themselves, just as the various estate and class distinctions must disappear through the abolition of their basis, private property.”
― The Principles of Communism
A:The nationalities of the peoples associating themselves in accordance with the principle of community will be compelled to mingle with each other as a result of this association and thereby to dissolve themselves, just as the various estate and class distinctions must disappear through the abolition of their basis, private property.”
― The Principles of Communism
“Q:Proletarians, then, have not always existed?
A:No. There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today; in other words, there have not always been proletarians, any more than there has always been free unbridled competitions.”
― The Principles of Communism
A:No. There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today; in other words, there have not always been proletarians, any more than there has always been free unbridled competitions.”
― The Principles of Communism
“Q:What is the proletariat?
A:The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition. The proletariat, or the class of proletarians, is, in a word, the working class of the 19th century”
― The Principles of Communism
A:The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition. The proletariat, or the class of proletarians, is, in a word, the working class of the 19th century”
― The Principles of Communism
“Q:What is Communism?
A:Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.”
― The Principles of Communism
A:Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.”
― The Principles of Communism
