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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 tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
KARL MARX

Brain Generation Live Nightmare Traditional
Democracy is the road to socialism.
KARL MARX

Democracy One Liner Road Social
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
KARL MARX

Appearance Essence Science
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
KARL MARX

Condition Demand Illusion Need
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.
KARL MARX

Care Children Education Institution Moments Mother State
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
KARL MARX

Change Economics Human
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
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
KARL MARX

Existence Reason
Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
KARL MARX

Dominate Essence Himself Labour Life Man Money Worship
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
KARL MARX

Ability According Inspirational Need Politics
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.
KARL MARX

Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
KARL MARX

Female Measure Position Progress Sex Social
To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
KARL MARX

Himself Man Matter Radical Root
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
KARL MARX

Control History Past People
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
KARL MARX

Community History Riddle Solution
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
KARL MARX

Age Class Ideas Rule

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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