Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Friedrich Engels
- The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
- All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm… 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.
- One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
- 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.
- By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
- Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.
- People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
- It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
- The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
- The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a German philosopher, social theorist, and co-founder of Marxism alongside Karl Marx. Born in Barmen, Prussia (now Wuppertal, Germany), he belonged to a wealthy industrialist family. Engels’ early experiences in his father’s textile business exposed him to the harsh realities of working-class life and inspired his lifelong commitment to socialist thought.
Engels met Marx in Paris in 1844, forming a close intellectual and personal partnership. Together, they collaborated on several influential works, most notably “The Communist Manifesto” (1848), which laid the foundation for modern communist ideology. Engels’ writings, including “The Condition of the Working Class in England” (1845) and “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” (1884), expanded on Marx’s ideas and played a crucial role in shaping the development of Marxism.
Engels was dedicated to advocating for the working class and critiquing the capitalist system. He analyzed historical materialism and dialectical materialism, contributing to the theoretical framework of communism. Following Marx’s death, Engels worked to preserve and promote their ideas while also contributing his own insights.
Friedrich Engels’ legacy endures through his contributions to socialist theory, his collaboration with Karl Marx, and his influential writings that continue to inspire discussions on class struggle, capitalism, and social change. He passed away in London in 1895, but his ideas remain relevant in the ongoing discourse about socio-economic structures and inequality.
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