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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

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
KARL MARX

Criticism Foundation Man Religion
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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Female Measure Position Progress Sex Social
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Absence History Opposite Peace Social
I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
KARL MARX

Against Atheist God Myself Rule
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
KARL MARX

Chain Labour Lose United Work World
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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Control History Past People
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
We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
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Abolishment Community Movement Present State
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
KARL MARX

Decrease Increase Labour Proportion Wages Work
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
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
KARL MARX

History Locomotive One Liner Revolution
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
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
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Demand Happiness People Religion
Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
KARL MARX

Believe Cap Ears Eyes Magic Monster
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
KARL MARX

Devil Especially Movement Peace

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.

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