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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

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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Communication Country Haunt Spectacular
Moments are the elements of profit.
KARL MARX

Business Economics Element Moments One Liner Profit
In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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Belong Capital Himself Labour Reality
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
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Condition Conscious Contray Determination Social
Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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Enough Fools Prosperity
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
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
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Capital Destroy God Life Objective
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Ability According Inspirational Need Politics
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
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Business Humour People Production Result Technology
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
KARL MARX

Against Expression Protest Religious Suffering Time
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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Devil Especially Movement Peace
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
KARL MARX

Demand Happiness People Religion
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.
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Accumulation Brutal Ignorance Misery Opposite Pole Slave Time Wealth
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Class Oppress Politics Power
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.
KARL MARX

Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society

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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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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