Quotes By Friedrich Engels

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.