Friedrich Engels Quotes on Politics
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 politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“The state is not abolished, it withers away.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“All history has been a history of class struggles.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life is the basis of all social structure.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“Force, however, plays yet another role in history, a revolutionary role.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“When it is a question of making a profit, the bourgeoisie has no fatherland.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“The first condition of socialism is the abolition of private property in the means of production.”