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Karl Marx

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
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
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
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Consicious Freedom Necessary
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
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Book Machine One Liner
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
KARL MARX

Community History Riddle Solution
People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
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Care Genuine Inspirational Laugh Life Need People Worth
The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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Community Private Property Sentence Single Theory
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Existence Reason
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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Camp Greatness Society Split
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
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Condition Demand Illusion Need
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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Antitode Deep Hustle Mental Motivational Pain Physical Suffering
Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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Break Up Help Ignorance One Liner Relationship
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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Communication Country Haunt Spectacular
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Class Oppress Politics Power
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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Control History Past People
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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Chain Labour Lose United Work World
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
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Criticism Foundation Man Religion
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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God Man Men Original
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Ability According Inspirational Need Politics
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
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
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Alcohol Care Humour Person Trust Wine
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
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
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
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
KARL MARX

Black Black Lives Matter Brand Freedom Labour Skin White

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