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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.
By Karl Marx
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
By Karl Marx
The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
By Karl Marx
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
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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 more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him, but to the object
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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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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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
By Karl Marx
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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Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
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Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
By Karl Marx