The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
KARL MARXPolitical power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
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I am a machine condemned to devour books.
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The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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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.
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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
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The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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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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Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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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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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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The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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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.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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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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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
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