Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
KARL MARXSociety as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
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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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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
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You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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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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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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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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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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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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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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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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