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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.

Karl Marx

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
KARL MARX

Objective Philosophy Utility Value
Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.
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Expression Individual Life Man Nature Relationship
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
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Criticism Opinion Science Welcome
To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
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Himself Man Matter Radical Root
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Business Humour People Production Result Technology
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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Decrease Increase Labour Proportion Wages Work
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
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
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
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Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
KARL MARX

Money Universe Value
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
Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity Virtue
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
Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.
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Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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Control History Past People

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