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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.

Karl Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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Change Interpret Philosophy Resistance World
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
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Age Class Ideas Rule
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Human Mind Occurance Religion Understand
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
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
Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again.
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Consicous Himself Indeed Lost Man Religion Self Esteem Win
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
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Condition Conscious Contray Determination Social
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
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
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Deep Hungry Man Understand Want
Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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Ability According Community Inspirational Need Politics
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
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Black Black Lives Matter Brand Freedom Labour Skin White
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

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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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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