- from the german ideology, 1845-6 (marx & engels):
- “communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. we call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.”
- “we know only a single science, the science of history.”
- “for each new class which puts itself in the place of one ruling before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim, to represent its interest as the common interest of all the members of society, that is, expressed in ideal form: it has to give its ideas the form of universality, and represent them as the only rational, universally valid ones.”
- “one of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.”
- “tal como os indivíduos expressam sua vida, assim são eles. O que eles são coincide, pois, com sua produção, tanto com o que produzem como também com o modo como produzem. A natureza dos indivíduos, portanto, depende das condições materiais de sua produção.”
- from the theses on feuerbach, 1845 (marx):
- “The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question.” (thesis II)
- “the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. in its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations.” (thesis VI)
- “the philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” (thesis XI)
- from principles of communism, 1847 (engles):
- “the slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.”
- “[in bourgeois society,] all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.”
- “the communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. they openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. they have a world to win. working men of all countries, unite!”
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- other:
- “'atheism' reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man.” (Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842)
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