Friedrich Engels

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Friedrich Engels Karl Marx
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The Purpose of Philosophy

• The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted
  the world in various ways the point however is
  to change it.

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Historical Materialism

• The nature of individuals depends on the
  material conditions determining their production.

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Friedrich Engels

• Out of Engels research of how the working class
  lived in England came his most famous book, The
  Conditions of the Working Class in England in
  1844.

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The Communist Manifesto

• The Communist Manifesto takes first place, along
  with Origin of Species, among the intellectual
  documents of the nineteenth century.

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Homo Faber (Man the Maker)

• Our minds begin to take on the features of the
  objects we create. If we create in piecemeal,
  fragmented ways, we become piecemeal and
  fragmented ourselves.

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The Mode of Production

• It is not the consciousness of men that
  determines their social being, but, on the
  contrary, their social being that determines
  their consciousness.

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Follow the Money

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the
  ideas of its ruling classes.

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The Class Struggle

• The haves and the have nots are always in
  opposition, so these classes must be in perpetual
  conflict.

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Marx on Religion

• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature,
  the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the
  spirit of an unspiritual situation. It is the
  opium of the people.