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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.

Karl Marx

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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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
Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
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Himself Illusion Man Religion Revolve Sun
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
KARL MARX

History Repeat Tragedy
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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Class History Society Struggle
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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Consicous Himself Indeed Lost Man Religion Self Esteem Win
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
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Change Economics Human
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
In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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Belong Capital Himself Labour Reality
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
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
KARL MARX

Allow Class Decision Oppression Particular Politics Represent
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX

Class Existence History Society Struggle
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
KARL MARX

Alcohol Care Humour Person Trust Wine
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
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
KARL MARX

Fight Money Reason

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