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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

Karl Marx

Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
KARL MARX

Away Easy Heritage Nation
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
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
KARL MARX

Black Black Lives Matter Brand Freedom Labour Skin White
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
KARL MARX

Beyond Change Difference Quantity
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
KARL MARX

Absence History Opposite Peace Social
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
KARL MARX

Compassion Excuse Terror
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
KARL MARX

Deep Hungry Man Understand Want
To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
KARL MARX

Himself Man Matter Radical Root
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
KARL MARX

Book Machine One Liner
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.
KARL MARX

Book Dance Eat Inspirational Paint Reading Theatre
Moments are the elements of profit.
KARL MARX

Business Economics Element Moments One Liner Profit
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
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
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
KARL MARX

Camp Greatness Society Split
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
KARL MARX

Condition Demand Illusion Need
We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
KARL MARX

Abolishment Community Movement Present State

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