communistquotes/quotes/Karl Marx and Frederick Engels/Others.csv

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2	`Karl Marx and Frederick Engels`,`Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League (1850)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm`,`The democratic petty bourgeois, far from wanting to transform the whole society in the interests of the revolutionary proletarians, only aspire to make the existing society as tolerable for themselves as possible. ... The rule of capital is to be further counteracted, partly by a curtailment of the right of inheritance, and partly by the transference of as much employment as possible to the state. As far as the workers are concerned one thing, above all, is definite: they are to remain wage labourers as before. However, the democratic petty bourgeois want better wages and security for the workers; in short, they hope to bribe the workers ...`
3	`Karl Marx and Frederick Engels`,`On Free Trade (1848)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/01/09ft.htm`,`What is free trade, what is free trade under the present condition of society? It is freedom of capital. When you have overthrown the few national barriers which still restrict the progress of capital, you will merely have given it complete freedom of action. ... But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.`
4	`Karl Marx and Frederick Engels`,`Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle (1879)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1879/09/17.htm`,`For nearly 40 years we have raised to prominence the idea of the class struggle as the immediate driving force of history, and particularly the class struggle between bourgeois and the proletariat as the great lever of the modern social revolution; ... At the founding of the International, we expressly formulated the battle cry: The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself.`