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Karl Marx

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
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Himself Man Matter Radical Root
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity Virtue
A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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Easy Heritage People
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
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
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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Human Proportional Valu World
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
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
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
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Control Declutter Easy History People
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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Communication Country Haunt Spectacular
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.
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Adjustment Affair Community Establishment Ideal Reality State
Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Democracy One Liner Road Social
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
Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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Break Up Help Ignorance One Liner Relationship
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
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Carry Social Strength Strong Weakness

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