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Two great currents prepared and made the Great French Revolution. One of them, the current of ideas, concerning the political reorganisation of States, came from the middle classes; the other, the current of action, came from the people,
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Goals of petty bourgeois vs goals of poor peasantry and proto proletariat
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“What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.”
― Elements of the Philosophy of Right
― Elements of the Philosophy of Right
“Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.”
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“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think”
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“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.”
― Fragments
― Fragments
“The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.”
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Reading works by and about Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels.
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