Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
KARL MARXTo be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!
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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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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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I am nothing but I must be everything.
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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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The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
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I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
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In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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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.
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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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The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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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.
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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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