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1930s >> 1939 >> no-424-december-1939

This Month’s Quotation: Frederick Engels

“Man, at last the master of his own form of social organisation, becomes at the same time the lord over nature, his own master—free”

F. Engels on the Socialist Future of Mankind
This Month’s Quotation

 

The passage on the cover of this issue is from “Socialism: Utopia and Scientific,” by Frederick Engels. (Allen and Unwin edition, page 86.)

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