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 MARXReligion 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.
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In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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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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Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
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Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
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The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.
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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.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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