capitalism 8
- Private property already does not exist for nine-tenths of people, and exists for the few because of that
- Capitalism cannot survive without constantly overturning production and the whole of social relations
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher and social scientist (1820 to 1895); co-author of The Communist Manifesto.
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What Friedrich Engels says most about
politics 5
- Workers have no country, so communists cannot take one from them
- The dominant ideas of every age have always been the ideas of its ruling class
government 3
- Political power in the proper sense is the organised power of one class to oppress another
- The executive of the modern state manages the shared affairs of the capitalist class
agency 2
- Machinery and division of labour make factory work monotonous and reduce the worker to an appendage of the machine
- Workers have nothing to lose but their chains and a world to win