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Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

Karl Marx

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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Analysis Appearance Commodity Extreme Obvious Physical Strange
Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
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Attitude Follow Inspirational Path People
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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Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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Camp Greatness Society Split
The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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Community Private Property Sentence Single Theory
A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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Easy Heritage People
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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Brain Generation Live Nightmare Traditional
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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Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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Capital Deep Hang Rope Soul
The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life – the greater is the store of your estranged being.
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Express Greatness Life Minimalism Store
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Mass One Liner Opium Religion
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
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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Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Objective Philosophy Utility Value
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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Female Measure Position Progress Sex Social
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
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Compassion Excuse Terror

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