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Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

Karl Marx

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
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
KARL MARX

Condition Conscious Contray Determination Social
People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
KARL MARX

Care Genuine Inspirational Laugh Life Need People Worth
The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
KARL MARX

Human Proportional Valu World
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX

Communication Country Haunt Spectacular
In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
KARL MARX

Belong Capital Himself Labour Reality
Religion is the opium of the masses.
KARL MARX

Mass One Liner Opium Religion
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX

Consicious Freedom Necessary
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
KARL MARX

Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
KARL MARX

Community Development-q Graduation Income Tax Necessary Progress
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.
KARL MARX

Book Dance Eat Inspirational Paint Reading Theatre
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
KARL MARX

Devil Especially Movement Peace
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX

Class Existence History Society Struggle
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
KARL MARX

Camp Greatness Society Split
We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
KARL MARX

Abolishment Community Movement Present State
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
KARL MARX

Allow Class Decision Oppression Particular Politics Represent

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

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