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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

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX

Communication Country Haunt Spectacular
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
KARL MARX

Black Black Lives Matter Brand Freedom Labour Skin White
Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.
KARL MARX

Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
KARL MARX

Age Class Ideas Rule
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
KARL MARX

Fight Money Reason
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
KARL MARX

Beyond Change Difference Quantity
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.
KARL MARX

Analysis Appearance Commodity Extreme Obvious Physical Strange
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
KARL MARX

Alcohol Care Humour Person Trust Wine
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
KARL MARX

Camp Greatness Society Split
Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
KARL MARX

Condition Control Education Enjoyment Freedom Law State Supreme
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
KARL MARX

Chance Climb Gain Path Road Royal Science Summit
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
KARL MARX

Change Interpret Philosophy Resistance World
I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
KARL MARX

Against Atheist God Myself Rule
Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again.
KARL MARX

Consicous Himself Indeed Lost Man Religion Self Esteem Win
The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
KARL MARX

Criticism Religion Tears
In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
KARL MARX

Decay History Laboratory Life Nature One Liner

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.

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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.

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