Friedrich Engels Quotes on Freedom
Friedrich Engels was a 19th-century German philosopher, social scientist, and revolutionary, the closest collaborator of Karl Marx and a co-founder of the tradition of thought that bears Marx's name. This page collects quotes attributed to Friedrich Engels on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“Force, however, plays yet another role in history, a revolutionary role.”
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“How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution .”
Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith (1847) -
“The Austrian Germans and Magyars will be set free and wreak a bloody revenge on the Slav barbarians . The general war which will then break out will smash this Slav Sonderbund and wipe out all these petty hidebound nations, down to their very names. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.”
The Magyar Struggle in Neue Rheinische Zeitung (13 January 1849) | Referring to the Serb uprising of 1848–49 , in which Serbs from Vojvodina fought against the previously victorious Hungarian revolution .