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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.

Karl Marx

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
KARL MARX

Control Declutter Easy History People
Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
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Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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History Locomotive One Liner Revolution
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Happiness People Religion Requisite
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Consicious Freedom Necessary
Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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Enough Fools Prosperity
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 full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
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Deep Hungry Man Understand Want
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
KARL MARX

Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
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.
KARL MARX

Book Dance Eat Inspirational Paint Reading Theatre
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.
KARL MARX

Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax
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
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
KARL MARX

Change Inspirational Task Understand World
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
KARL MARX

Appearance Essence Science
The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
KARL MARX

Human Proportional Valu World
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
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
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Change Economics Human
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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God Man Men Original
Communism begins where atheism begins.
KARL MARX

Atheist Beginning Community One Liner
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
KARL MARX

Class Oppress Politics Power
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

Analysis Appearance Commodity Extreme Obvious Physical Strange
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
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
KARL MARX

Book Machine One Liner
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
KARL MARX

Abolishment Community Philosophy Private Property Sentence Theory
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
KARL MARX

Condition Conscious Contray Determination Social
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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Camp Greatness Society Split
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX

Communication Country Haunt Spectacular

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