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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
KARL MARX

Condition Conscious Contray Determination Social
Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
KARL MARX

Minimalism One Liner Simplicity Virtue
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
KARL MARX

History Repeat Tragedy
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
KARL MARX

Absence History Opposite Peace Social
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
KARL MARX

Business Catch Fish Motivational Opportunity Ruin Teaching Wonderful
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!
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Chain Class Community Country Lose Revolution Rule United Win World
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
KARL MARX

Change Economics Human
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.
KARL MARX

Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX

Consicious Freedom Necessary
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
KARL MARX

Female Measure Position Progress Sex Social
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
KARL MARX

Ability According Inspirational Need Politics
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
KARL MARX

Money Universe Value
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.
KARL MARX

Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
KARL MARX

Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
KARL MARX

Consist Express Individual Relationship Society
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
KARL MARX

Brain Generation Live Nightmare Traditional

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