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Karl Marx

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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Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
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Decay History Laboratory Life Nature One Liner
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 last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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Capital Deep Hang Rope Soul
Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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Consist Express Individual Relationship Society
The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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Criticism Religion Tears
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
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Chance Climb Gain Path Road Royal Science Summit
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
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Class Labour One Liner Revolution Work
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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History Locomotive One Liner Revolution
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Class Oppress Politics Power
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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History Repeat Tragedy
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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Community History Riddle Solution
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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Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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Devil Especially Movement Peace
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

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