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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

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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God Man Men Original
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Consicious Freedom Necessary
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Existence Reason
Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
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Dominate Essence Himself Labour Life Man Money Worship
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
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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Ability According Community Inspirational Need Politics
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
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Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax
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
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
The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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Criticism Religion Tears
You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
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Aware Disparate Labour Quantity Quite Reward
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
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Objective Philosophy Utility Value
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
Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.
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Expression Individual Life Man Nature Relationship

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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