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We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Karl Marx

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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Analysis Appearance Commodity Extreme Obvious Physical Strange
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
KARL MARX

Condition Demand Illusion Need
Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
KARL MARX

Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
KARL MARX

Happiness People Religion Requisite
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.
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Adjustment Affair Community Establishment Ideal Reality State
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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Decrease Increase Labour Proportion Wages Work
People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
KARL MARX

Care Genuine Inspirational Laugh Life Need People Worth
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.
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Accumulation Brutal Ignorance Misery Opposite Pole Slave Time Wealth
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
KARL MARX

Chain Labour Lose United Work World
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
KARL MARX

Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
KARL MARX

Fight Money Reason
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
KARL MARX

Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax
We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
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Abolishment Community Movement Present State
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
KARL MARX

Class Oppress Politics Power
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX

Class Existence History Society Struggle

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