- Vladimir Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
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Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?

- Friedrich Engels, On Authority (1872)

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... and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists.

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... about the way labour-power is produced & sustained, he is only concerned about its availability & its ability to generate profit. In other words, the capitalist production process presupposes the existence of a body of exploitable workers.

- Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (1981)

A commendable and worthy effort, though I fear the only thing with any true potential to bring about any kind of armistice is the completion of sales targets by the likes of Lockheed, Raytheon and BAE.
Even then...

But not a safe state for anyone else, apparently.

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These are the paraphernalia of neo-colonialism, superficially proffering aid and guidance; subterraneously benefiting the interested donors and their countries in old and new ways.

- Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (1965)
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Friendly co-operation is offered in the educational, cultural & social domains, aimed at subverting the desirable patterns of indigenous progress to the imperialist objectives of the financial monopolists. These are the latest methods of holding back the real development of the new countries.

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Let us reconsider the question of cerebral reality and of the cerebral mass of all humanity, whose connexions must be increased, whose channels must be diversified and whose messages must be re-humanised.

- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
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Today, we are present at the stasis of Europe. Comrades, let us flee from this motionless movement where gradually dialectic is changing into the logic of equilibrium. Let us reconsider the question of mankind.

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... which consisted of bringing their whole weight to bear violently upon these elements, of modifying their arrangement and their nature, of changing them and, finally, of bringing the problem of mankind to an infinitely higher plane.

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Our interpretation of the social reality can similarly derive a certain, historical law and hence scientific law of society which can be applied irrespective of its origin or its originators.

- Walter Rodney, Marxism and African Liberation (1975)

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Was Edison a racist? But they ask the question, "Was Marx a racist?" They genuinely believe that they are making a fundamental distinction, whereas, in fact, they are obscuring the totality of social development. And the natural sciences are not to be separated from the social sciences.

But then you've got Anti-Dühring to tide you over, featuring some proper laugh-out-loud comedic and sarcastic writing and which you can clearly see in later takedowns of Kautsky, Bernstein etc by Lenin and Luxemburg (and Stalin, to a mildly lesser extent).

Oh absolutely, Engels' more scientific works are extremely concentrated - one definitely has to allow oneself plenty of time to read the likes of Origin of the Family or Dialectics of Nature.