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Karl Marx

(1818-1883) Prussian-born philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist, father of Communism, co-author of the 'Communist Manifesto.’

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

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From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

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Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

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Men make their own history

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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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All great historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice the fist time as tragedy, the second time as farce

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Capital is dead labor, which, ampire-like, Iives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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Capital is money, capital is commodities.. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays golden eggs.

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Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.

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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

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Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

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Democracy is the road to socialism

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From each, according to his ability to each, according to his need.

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

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I do not like money, money 1s the reason we fight.

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

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

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The past lies like a nightmare upon the present

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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

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