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

Karl Marx

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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Camp Greatness Society Split
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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Money Universe Value
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
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Compassion Excuse Terror
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Objective Philosophy Utility Value
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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Decrease Increase Labour Proportion Wages Work
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
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Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity Virtue
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
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Criticism Foundation Man Religion
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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History Repeat Tragedy
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Absence History Opposite Peace Social
Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
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Dominate Essence Himself Labour Life Man Money Worship
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.
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Book Dance Eat Inspirational Paint Reading Theatre
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
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Against Expression Protest Religious Suffering Time
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Age Class Ideas Rule
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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Appearance Essence Science
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Human Mind Occurance Religion Understand

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