What Friedrich Engels thinks about government
German philosopher and social scientist (1820 to 1895); co-author of The Communist Manifesto.
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3 dated positions, c. 1848, in their own words. Our reading of what Friedrich Engels has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
↗Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848; English edition of 1888)gutenberg.org All 36 from this book
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Their wordsThe proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.
↗Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848; English edition of 1888)gutenberg.org All 36 from this book
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Our readingPolitical power in the proper sense is the organised power of one class to oppress another
Their wordsPolitical power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
↗Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848; English edition of 1888)gutenberg.org All 36 from this book