There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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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Moments are the elements of profit.
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In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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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.
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Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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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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My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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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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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
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May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
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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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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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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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