History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
KARL MARXMan 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.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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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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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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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Moments are the elements of profit.
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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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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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I am a machine condemned to devour books.
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In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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