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 MARXAccumulation 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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People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
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The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
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Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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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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The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
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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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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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Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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