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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

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.
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Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Human Mind Occurance Religion Understand
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Class Existence History Society Struggle
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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Community History Riddle Solution
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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Decrease Increase Labour Proportion Wages Work
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
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Deep Hungry Man Understand Want
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
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Creature Feature Kidness Lady Life Overwhelmed Ugly Young
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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Money Universe Value
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Objective Philosophy Utility Value
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Consicious Freedom Necessary
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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Community Development-q Graduation Income Tax Necessary Progress
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
Communism begins where atheism begins.
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Atheist Beginning Community One Liner
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

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